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- Holgrave has undergone a great chance upon falling in love with Phoebe. Much as her love anchored Clifford in reality, it now appears to make Holgrave willing to submit to tradition and conventionality. Their love symbolically triumphs over tragedy in an implied undoing of the House’s curse.
www.litcharts.com/lit/the-house-of-the-seven-gables/chapter-20-the-flower-of-edenThe House of the Seven Gables Chapter 20: The Flower of Eden ...
Chapter 20: The Flower of Eden. Phoebe is pulled into the house by a strange, warm hand, and when she steps into the light she realizes it is Holgrave. Holgrave has an attitude of genuine warmth, as if something wonderful has happened, but he refuses to let Phoebe look in the parlor.
The Flower of Eden. At first Phoebe can't see in the sudden dark of the house. She feels a hand drawing her into the grand reception room. She sees that it's Mr. Holgrave who has brought her inside. He looks paler than usual, but his smile is full of a rare warmth. Phoebe asks what has happened to Hepzibah and Clifford.
Clifford is afraid the house will be even more dreary because Phoebe is not there. Phoebe runs toward her cousins. Hepzibah breaks down in tears, happy to be relieved of the responsibility. When Clifford sees Phoebe and Holgrave together, he says the "flower of Eden has bloomed."
The Flower of Eden. PHOEBE, coming so suddenly from the sunny daylight, was altogether bedimmed in such density of shadow as lurked in most of the passages of the old house. She was not at first aware by whom she had been admitted.
The Flower of Eden: Holgrave, looking paler than ordinary, grasps Phoebe’s hand. He smiles at her with genuine warmth. He tells her that they are alone in the house: a terrible event has occurred.
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Before Holgrave can throw open the doors of the house and admit the warm sunlight, Hepzibah and Clifford enter and embrace Phoebe, now happily returned to them. After what is soon termed a "natural death," Judge Pyncheon is quickly forgotten.
