Part one of term paper
The protagonist in The House of Seven Gables is Hepzibah Pyncheon. She is an aging gentlewoman who in the past had lived in luxury, but she has recently run into troubling economic times. She is an ancestor of a patrician Puritan background that goes all the way back to the colonial days of the United States. One of her earliest relatives ...

Part two of term paper
... day of Hepzibah. Hepzibah is a dynamic character in The House of Seven Gables. As the story begins, Hepzibah is having to open a cent shop to help pay her bills. She is a tall, gaunt woman who always seems to be in a fowl mood. She finds having to open the shop extremely demeaning considering her patrician background. She lives almost completely in the past and never leaves the house to interact with the rest of the world. When she opens the cent shop she finally begins to make interactions ...