American Lit Podcast #6 Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (4 of 4)
Hawthorne takes a moment to explain that the Puritans in New England weren’t all drab and bitter; most were native Englishmen, who back in the old country were merry and joyful, and today’s holiday brings back the merriment they must have remembered, even though we don’t see it otherwise. “Their immediate posterity,” Hawthorne tells us,…