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The following question references the novel The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

How is the history of the house and the property significant to the story?

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We learn that the elder Pyncheon possibly framed Matthew Maule for witchcraft to gain the property and build the house. These wrong doings seem to curse anyone who lives in the home.

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