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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Custom House

Hawthorne wrote a long introductory sketch for The Scarlet Letter. (A
sketch is generally a brief composition about one single place, character,
or incident. Hawthorne's sketch, "The Custom House," is not a typical sketch.
It is not brief and it discusses numerous places, characters, and incidents.)
The article (which is over four to five times as long as the average chapter
in The Scarlet Letter) may be subdivided into six sections: (1) the
introduction and a description of the Salem Custom House; (2) a discussion
of Hawthorne's ...

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