Scarlet Letter 2

Similarities in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne The Ambitious Guest is a short story bye Nathaniel Hawthorne that presents deadly irony. Residing in a notch in the mountains of New Hampshire, a cottage sits on the side of a steep mountain. In the house lives a family whose contacts with the rest of the world are from the travelers that pass by. One night when the family was huddled by the fire, a traveler stopped …showed first 75 words of 786 total…

…showed last 75 words of 786 total…Letter have many similarities because the same writer wrote them in the same style. Although the plots were far from being the same, the symbols used in the two plots were almost identical. By studying the writing styles one can determine that author by just reading a story. Works Cited Hawthorne, Nathaniel. (1851) The Ambitious Guest. http://www.tiac.net/users/eldred/nh/ag.html Hawthorne, Nathaniel. (1850) The Scarlet Letter. New York: Penguin Books USA Inc.