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The protagonist in The House of Seven Gables is Hepzibah Pyncheon. She is an aging gentlewoman who in the past had lived in luxury, but she has recently run into troubling economic times. She is an ancestor of a patrician Puritan background that goes all the way ....

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.... and never leaves the house to interact with the rest of the world. When she opens the cent shop she finally begins to make interactions with other people; however, she keeps her unpleasant mood even to her customers. The woman lives with the curse that has been handed down through the generations. It is this that fuels her constant bad mood. The day after she opens the shop, her cousin Phoebe comes to visit her. Phoebe is a young country girl who ends up staying with Hepzibah to manage the household. Phoebe has youthful energetic demeanor which improves Hepzibah's attitude a little. The day after Phoebe's arrival the house of seven gable ....