Hawthorne’s marvelous notebooks – it is found to be laughably vague
Hawthorne’s more or less allegorical stories are not populated by what I would call rounded or real characters. I don’t exactly mean psychologically rounded characters. I mean people like this: “The skipper of the wrecked sloop had, apparently, just been taking a drop of comfort – but still seemed downcast… there was something that made me smile in his grim and gloomy mien, his rusty, jammed hat, his rough and grisly beard, and in his mode of chewing tobacco, with much action of the jaws, ge
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