The Scarlet Letter
The Custom House
What are the narrator's notions of decay and ruin in the sketch? How does he generalize about history?
What are the narrator's notions of decay and ruin in the sketch? How does he generalize about history?
I think that the decay of Custom House speaks to the decay ofthe puritan ethos. The Scarlet letter is a metaphor of a decaying sosiety that has long been poisoned by hypocricy and power politics.