1. Suspense in The House of the Seven Gables
... tension with a terse syntactical style, igniting imagination with suggestive language, and frustrating the reader with a limited perspective. By presenting the reader with the anxious experience of extended mental uncertainty in a mode akin to realism, he calls into question the reader's ability to perceive their world with clarity and confidence, undermining certainty with the suggestion that experience itself is unreliable. ... evidence in his creation of suspense through style and diction, Hawthorne begins to drop hints regarding the nature of the evidence that kick-start the imaginat...
- Word Count: 1547
- Approx Pages: 6
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Graduate