Blog 8 due Monday, April 2--Chapter 13

Chapter 13 "Alice Pyncheon" is probably the most famous chapter in The House of the Seven Gables. Most readers get the sense that this chapter reveals something important about the Pyncheon Family and the novel itself.  What exactly it reveals (if anything) is up for grabs. For your blog this week, I'd like you to go back through that chapter and offer your reading. What does this chapter contribute to how you have read in the novel?  You can think about it in terms of what the chapter might have to say about the larger themes we've been talking about in class (art forms, social forms, the difference between form and content) or you can go in a different direction.