The setting is a newly erected city, in which a jail and a cemetery are the center of. Darkness and sorrow seemingly loom around every corner. Only a single rosebush exists showing any sign of beauty in the unsightly town. In the story The Scarlet Letter, author Nathaniel Hawthorne presents a dramatically dark and gloomy environment, which in turn predicts an inevitable downfall of the protagonist.
Hawthorne utilizes a barrage of deep, dark, almost eerie sounding words to give the setting a feeling of death and despair. Words such as "gloomy," "condemned," and "doom" make the reader imagine and picture an env
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