The Hollow Of The Three Hills

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her because
the most important, was dying. Hawthorne was not too clear
in stating what exactly the problem was but it seemed that
her daughter had fallen ill.
Throughout the story Hawthorne masks this fact well and
uses foreshadowing nicely. In one part where the main
character is looking in on her parents by means of the
witches powers and Hawthorne describes her parents as
speaking "...of a daughter, a wanderer they knew not where,
bearing dishonor along with her, and leaving shame and
affliction to bring their gray heads to the grave. They
alluded also to other and more recent woe,"(Hawthorne 104)
The daughter wandering bearing shame is the main character,
who tried to run from her problem which was what they spoke
of next. The more recent woe they were alluding to was
their granddaughter's death.
Next the main character looked in upon her husband
which she had left to bear the brunt of their daughter's
mourning. The main character had left her husband ...

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