"I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave so close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole m...

Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne's life, as seen in his writing, shows solitary self analysisexpressed as symbolism which exhibits the weakness he found in all mankind. The ease inwhich one can understand his symbolism has influenced American Literature. Hawthorne's cynical themes of human nat...