Anna thought about the men outside on the gallery. She was glad they were there; finding them smoking and talking quietly had been comforting, it was what men did in the evenings when the work was done. Of course, the work was not done, and she doubted that it ever would be. It would go on and on, even after the house was emptied of strangers, long after the wildflowers had blossomed a hundred times on their graves. .Howard Bahr
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The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a novel about money. It shows how important it is to have money, but also how much trouble it can get you into. The story is about a man named Mr. Pyncheon who has built himself a mansion that he calls the seven gables. He was finally able to get this house after his long struggle with his business partner.
He did not have much money when he first tried to buy the house, but he was determined to get it because he wanted his fortune to grow. The house was built on land that had once belonged to the Pyncheon family, who were forced out of their own house in order that the Pyncheons could buy it for themselves. However, since they were not wealthy when they bought the land, they were paid in grain instead of money.
As time went on, Mr. Pyncheon's family grew poorer and poorer until finally his wife died and he sent away all of his children except for one daughter named Anna, who would later become the main character in the novel itself. The night before her wedding day, Anna saw her father in his room looking at some papers which made him so sad that she decided to go into his room and talk to him; however, he refused to talk back to her or even look at her. She then remembered that her mother had told her that if she ever needed anything she could go into their old room and take whatever books she wanted from their bookcase since they were not worth much but still nice to look at; she took one book off of the shelf and put it in her pocket before leaving out of their room without saying another word.
The next morning after she woke up she went downstairs where her father was waiting for her; he asked for what book she had taken from their bookcase and when she told him it was a book about flowers he asked her what flowers there were in their garden since they were never allowed outside there before they moved into their new home even though they still lived on their original property on which the house was built originally. Anna told him there were some flowers there too but they were wild ones which meant nothing since they were not supposed to be planted around people's houses because people could get sick from them just like why you shouldn't go outside on a cold day without your coat on because your skin would freeze before you could touch anything else. Anna then went back upstairs while she listened to her
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