Inof
, Hawthorne uses homely names to describe the typical women of the village.
He subtlety implies by using names as "matronly", and "ruddy", and by
describing them as
...the beef and ale of their native
land, with a moral diet not a whit more refined, entered largely into their
composition
that they are essentially women of little
sophistication, more rudimentary origins, and perhaps even less attractive than . We know this
because the author juxtaposes Hester's description by using much more complementing and less
primitive words.
The young woman was tall, with a
figure of perfect elegance, on a large...
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