"The Ambitious Guest" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Select the correct answer. Look at the examples in highlighted text in the passage. Which example shows the influence that living in New England had on Hawthorne's writing?
Nathaniel Hawthorne lived and wrote in the puritanical culture of 19th century New England. In the decade after he completed college, he spent most of his time in solitude writing his early short stories and a novel. When he was unable to support himself by writing, he tried several careers, but continued to write novels and short stories. Although he visited England and Italy, his best-known stories describe the gloom and loneliness of life in New England. He died in 1864 A. "Ah, this fire is the right thing!"... B. One glance and smile laced .... C. This family was situated in the Notch B D. Up the chimney roared... Reset Next One September night a family had gathered round their hearth, and piled it high with the driftwood of mountain streams, the dry cones of the pine, and the splintered ruins of great trees that had come crashing down the precipice. Up the chimney roared the fire, and brightened the room with its broad blaze. The faces of the father and mother had a sober gladness; the children laughed; the eldest daughter was the image of Happiness at seventeen, and the aged grandmother, who sat knitting in the warmest place, was the image of Happiness grown old. They had found the "herb, heart's-ease," in the bleakest spot of all New England. This family was situated in the Notch of the White Hills, where the mind war rhorn throuanhnitthauner and...
