The House of the Seven Gables

discuss the symbolism of the mirror in the houe

The House of the Seven Gables

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The mirror symbolizes the truth; it shows the family as it really is, and it shows "the departed Pyncheons doing over again some deed of sin, or in the crisis of life's bitterest sorrow."