The WreckIgnitions Read. that hawthorn tree
Richard Ryan
himself at richardryan.com
Sun Apr 10 20:48:54 CDT 2011
Had keyed in on that (the winking Hawthorne reference) but that is
surely right...
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> So, we get a lot of Aunt May and guilt, guilt, guilt....here
> re Wyatt's growing up........................
>
> and hawthorn trees grow majorly in Northern Europe and
> especially beautifully in England, I learn. So for Aunt May
> to cultivate them here is another good symbol for where
> the roots of America have come....Puritan guilt right there
>
> AND, gotta be a Hawthorne the writer all about guilt, guilt, guilt
> jokey allusion too, yes?
>
>
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