Chimes, Shadows, and “You”: What Makes “The Haunted Mind” by Nathaniel Hawthorne Great?

I’m going to take a wild guess and say that when you first saw the name Nathaniel Hawthorne you thought of those crappy high school essays about The Scarlet Letter, or maybe you remember slogging through a horrible lesson of “The Minister’s Black Veil.” Ah, how high school English does a fantabulous job utterly sucking the marrow of life from great works.

Well, you’re in for a doozy of a treat because I’m going to attempt to make a weird, obscure, ridiculously difficult to read meditative short story called “The Haunted Mind” seem fun, cool, and a great model to write some cool shit.

Wish me luck!