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Holgrave. Though only twenty-two, Holgrave is the product of passion, hard work, and travel. He is a man of great integrity, as we learn when he does not take advantage of the hypnotized Phoebe and when he supports and comforts the despondent Hepzibah. Although Hepzibah views Holgrave’s friends as disreputable, the young man’s politics come ...
Phoebe finds Holgrave’s radicalism off-putting, but she respects his self-assurance and gradually grows to befriend and love him. Though it is not revealed until the end of the novel, Holgrave is a descendant of Matthew Maule and knows the secrets of the House of the Seven Gables, including the location of the long-lost deed.
Chapter 12: The Daguerreotypist. Phoebe has now been at the Pyncheon house for a month. Since she is young and hungry for company of her own age, she becomes friends with Holgrave, the daguerreotypist. Their conversations are especially important to Phoebe, who craves a break from the dour company of Clifford and Hepzibah.
- Hepzibah Pyncheon. The current occupant of the house with seven gables, Hepzibah is Clifford’s sister and a cousin to Judge Pyncheon and Phoebe. With her face locked in a permanent scowl due to nearsightedness, Hepzibah scares customers away from her small store, but she has a good heart and takes good care of her brother.
- Clifford Pyncheon. Once a beautiful young man, Clifford is broken by the thirty years he spends in prison for allegedly murdering his uncle, old Jaffrey Pyncheon.
- Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon. The wealthy, popular cousin of Hepzibah and Clifford, Judge Pyncheon is the closest to their stern ancestor, Colonel Pyncheon. With his brilliant smile, he is viewed, by himself and by others, as a pillar of the community, but his is in fact a dark and greedy nature.
- Holgrave. A young lodger in Hepzibah’s home, Holgrave earns his living by making an early kind of photograph known as a daguerreotype. Holgrave’s politics are very liberal and revolutionary, but he is kind despite the strange and lawless company he keeps.
Feb 26, 2023 · Hawthorne suggests that Phoebe's love has transformed Holgrave, allowing hidden aspects of his self to be acknowledged and drawing him toward wholeness and community. The reader might ask whether Hawthorne suggests that an artist requires a degree of alienation from his or her community to exercise his creative abilities.
- Rex Krajewski
- 2018
Holgrave is a wayfaring, twenty-two-year-old man, one who has held a variety of jobs. He is now a daguerrotypist, an early-day photographer. He is politically radical, denouncing wealth, tradition, and "the heavy hand of the past." More important, as a Hawthorne character, he is coldly intellectual, disdainful of sentiment, and capable of ...
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Holgrave falls in love with Phoebe and, in the final chapter, reveals that he is a descendent of Matthew Maule. Toward the end of the story, Holgrave tells Clifford, Hepzibah, and Phoebe where the ...
