Nathaniel Hawthorne-The House of Seven Gables
How come they have not made this into a movie recently? I know of one black
and white film from the forties with Vincent Price (which isn't even on
Netflix) but no other screen adaptations.
I was surprised when I was reading the movie
trailer that the
The House of Seven Gables was about one brother framing another brother for
murder. I read the book in my college days, and I don't know if I can't
remember the plot line because it is not memorable, or if my mind is
simply thick with cobwebs. I
do remember the house itself, which
still stands in Salem,
and it still haunts me. It is a dark and gabled structure and every bit as creepy as
you might think. And I also remember vaguely that the story is about the sins of the
father revisiting the sons through the ages. It is about the later generations of a family in Massachusetts, whose ancestors had been involved in the Salem witch trials.
The
tourist dept. in Salem
tries to make you think this book is hair raising but that much I
do
remember, it is not!
The House of Seven Gables was different than what I
had thought at the outset, but I do remember liking it. Why did I write this
review? Maybe I shouldn't have, time to re-read this book.
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