Impacted by the family background and social trend,Hawthorne frequently got perplexed.At the same time,he also criticized the extremism in traditional Puritanism and insisted on a more tolerant attitude towards the dissidents.So Hawthorne established his own Puritanism,which is based on the traditional Puritanism and influenced by Transcendentalism and personal experience.As a result,Hawthorne’s fictions are filled with his own concept of Puritanism and The House of the Seven Gablesreveals his Puritanism as can be seen from the characters and the use of symbolism.
