This novel comes out in favor of the idea that families should merge with the mass of humanity instead of confining themselves by social class through the words of a daguerrotypist.  
One famous scene in this work depicts the changing patterns of light through a room as a man, who recently died of a stroke, sits in a chair and his watch ticks.  This novel comes out in favor of the idea that families should merge with the mass of humanity instead of confining themselves by social class through the words of a daguerrotypist.  That daguerrotypist reveals that the curse laid by his ancestor may have been possible through knowledge of a tendency toward apoplexy in the owners of the title estate.  The judge stole the title estate from Matthew, but at the end, the last Pyncheon marries the last Maule.  For ten points, name this novel whose title object sits in Salem, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
One famous scene in this work depicts the changing patterns of light through a room as a man, who recently died of a stroke, sits in a chair and his watch ticks.  
The House of the {Seven Gables}