I can't help but gush about Hawthorne's writing. Don't get me wrong the story is good, but since I've read it before, it's difficult to get much more out of it. But reading it as an adult I am realizing how fantastic the writing is. Let me share a few tidbits I underlined. (The italicized parts are mine.)
"...as a being who felt himself quite astray and at a loss in the pathway of human existence..." (48).
"...The very law that condemned her--a giant of stern features, but with vigor to support, as well as to annihilate, in his iron arm--..." (55).
"...the spot [Salem] where some great and marked even has given the color to their lifetime..." (56).
"...sometimes through that alchemy of quiet malice, by which women can concoct a subtime poison from ordinary trifles..." (59). (I laughed so hard when I read this line!)
"That unsunned snow in the matron's bosom, and the buring shame on Hester Prynne's,--what had the two in common?" (60).
There are many other lines of course, but these were some of my favorites. Any that you'd like to share?
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