The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne         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 back to the colonial days of the United States. One of her earliest relatives was Colonel Pyncheon who built a …showed first 75 words of 582 total…

…showed last 75 words of 582 total…before the curse was removed.         As seen from the above examples, Hepzibah undergoes a definite change through the story. At the beginning she is old lady living in the past, but at the end she turns into a prosperous old lady looking towards the future. She makes the complete change only through the death of her uncle and the removal of the curse on her family. With the curse removed she makes a complete change.