Question

Which three parts of this excerpt from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The House of Seven Gables provide direct characterization?

Answer 1

For direct characterisation in the novel, refer to these lines in the novel.

" Endowed with commonsense, as a massive and hard block "

" the Colonel, like most of his breed and generation, was impenetrable. "

" fastened together by stern rigidity "

It is a Gothic novel which revolves around a New England family and some of the incidents which take place in their ancestral homes.