... voice is described a final time two pages later, it remains "a strange, vague murmur, which might be likened to an indistinct shadow of human utterance" (97)-the descriptions from before recycled to exacerbate our frustration and keep us in darkness; we never do discern the source of ... Having laid the foundation of imperfect, indiscernible 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 imagination due to the connotations of the imagery. Notably, his trigger words center mainly on g...

• Word Count: 1547
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate