Scarlet_Letter

Scarlet Letter Hawthorne’s introduction to the Scarlet Letter explains his experience(s) in his native town of Salem. He specifies what his goal for the reader is going to be. Spending a lot of his time at the Custom-House (a governmental building in Salem) he describes the atmosphere and diversities of the people who walk up those granite steps. His reason for creating the Custom- House short novel was to introduce a group of short works as well as the long story which was not yet completed, however, his publisher James Fields encouraged Hawthorne to let “The Scarlet Letter” stand alone. In his native town of Salem, he describes the Custom-House as a sort of old, unattractive building. He elaborates the physical sense of the buildings exterior with the American flag that hangs vertically and the banner scarlet, letter, custom-house, people, describes, building, time, short, salem, long, hawthorne, hangs, eagle, yet, works, wings, wing, warn, walk, voyages, vixenly, vessels, very, vertically, under, unattractive, town, tired, three, themselves, story, stirring, steps, states, stand, spending, specifies, south