A Herman Melville essay notes that this story's innocuous title is meant to deceive the "super cial skimmer of pages," who fails to see that this story is "deep as Dante." A character in this story mentions women poisoning their husbands' bedtime drinks as evidence that the whole earth is "one stain of guilt, one mighty blood-spot." When its protagonist dies, "no hopeful verse" is carved upon his tombstone because "his dying hour was gloom." Whil
A Herman Melville essay notes that this story's innocuous title is meant to deceive the "super cial skimmer of pages," who fails to see that this story is "deep as Dante." A character in this story mentions women poisoning their husbands' bedtime drinks as evidence that the whole earth is "one stain of guilt, one mighty blood-spot." When its protagonist dies, "no hopeful verse" is carved upon his tombstone because "his dying hour was gloom." While traveling with a man whose black staff resembles a living snake, the title character of this story meets Goody Cloyse and  nds his wife's pink ribbon hanging from a tree branch. The title character and his wife, Faith, are inducted into a Satanic cult in a forest clearing at the climax of, for 10 points, what short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne?
A Herman Melville essay notes that this story's innocuous title is meant to deceive the "super cial skimmer of pages," who fails to see that this story is "deep as Dante."