will freely add." Such structures signal that the voice is one issuing from not merely from a writer, but rather from a speaker. Furthermore, the structure of the following passages takes on the form of an oral report in which the narrator goes through descriptions of his colleagues point-by-point, as though he is simply trying to introduce them as concepts not to be forgotten throughout the ensuing lecture rather than to devise a manner through which to splice these descriptions of the other characters into the following text more effectively. This feature is then emphasized when the narrator, having finished his resume of Nippers and Turkey, begins his next passage as though backtracking through his speech (pg. 10): "I should have stated before that…" In The House of Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne utilizes the conversational approach perhaps the most overtly of any of the three authors, at times situating the narration in the first person plural, which thereby has the effect of drawing an assumed commonality between the reader and the party of the narrator. Indeed his use of 'we' is scattered through the entire book, as in the passage (pg. 139): "We must not stain our page with any contemporary scandal, to a similar purport, that may have been whispered against the judge," and the in this passage further on (pg. 139.):But it is too fruitful a subject, this of hereditary resemblances,-the frequent recurrence of which, in a direct line, is truly unaccountable, when we consider how large an accumulation of ancestry lies behind every man, at the distance of one or two centuries. We shall only add, therefore, that the Puritan- so, at least, says chimney-corner tradition, which so often preserves traits of character with marvelous fidelity -was bold, imperious, relentless, crafty… …Whether the judge in any degree resembled him, the further progress of our narrative may show.Not only does Hawthorne's use of we no...
