The Hollow Of The Three Hills Essay — страница 2

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left her daughter to die and that is just what happened. Looking back in retrospect the main character probably would have stayed with her daughter. She cared enough to give her life for just one hour of looking in on the ones she loved and more than likely would have liked to be their with them in this time of mourning. Not only could she have been there to help them but more importantly they could have been there to help her. As a mother watching her daughter’s funeral brigade must have broken her heart but watching it through a witches spell must have shattered it. Hawthorne’s main character chose to run like a coward and in the end paid the worst consequence of all. She gave up her life to witness the pain and suffering she had cause others. With her daughter dead by

disease, her husband infuriated with hatred and pain, and her parents filled with disgust and humiliation she had no one that cared about her all because she couldn’t handle the emotional stress. How much emotional stress does it seem she caused to others in the end though? She tried to escape her duties as a wife and mother but they just followed her to the very end.