At the beginning of the novel, Hawthorne explains how women have become more feminine throughout generations:

Morally, as well as maternally, there was a coarser fibre in those wives and maidens of old English birth and breeding, than in their fair descendants, separated from them by a series of six or seven generations; for, throughout that chain of ancestry, every successive mother has transmitted to her child a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty, and a slighter physical frame, if not a character of less force and solidity, than her own.

The author uses words such as “broad shouldered, well-developed

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