The Blithedale Romance
Blithedale Romance
Discuss his guiding personality traits and his primary values. Does he seem to be an ideal candidate for life at a Transcendentalist commune?
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No, he does not. In reading the novel, we can ascertain that Hawthorne, from his own personal experience, never meant for Coverdale's time at Blithedale to be successful. In my own opinion, Coverdale is too consumed by the people he shares his life with in Blitheville to embrace the concept as it is meant to be embraced. He was too opinionated, unbending, and at times..... judgmental.
