In the Custom House intro of the Scarlet Letter, what do you notice about Hawthorne’s use of language? Comment on initial impressions about diction, syntax, and/or organization.

hi,   i believe the outlines that were supposed to be showing at the sentences, are not. could you highlight them somehow?

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.

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