Critical Commentary Related to Alienation and the Artist in "Ethan Brand"

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In these excerpts from "Ethan Brand's Homecoming," Rita K. Gollin addresses the theme of alienation in "Ethan Brand" and relates the theme to Hawthorne's life. (courtesy of Cambridge University Press) This excerpt from "Ethan Brand's Homecoming" Rita K. Gollin addresses Brand's homecoming and the irony of the theme for Hawthorne's life. (courtesy of Cambridge University Press)

This excerpt from Rita K. Gollin's "Ethan Brand's Homecoming," addresses Brand's self-consciousness about his alienation. (courtesy of Cambridge University Press) In this excerpt from "Ethan Brand's Homecoming," Rita K. Gollin remarks on Brand's fragmented romance and Hawthorne's fragment of a Romance. (courtesy of Cambridge University Press) This excerpt from "Ethan Brand's Homecoming," Rita K. Gollin underscores the theme of alienation in "Ethan Brand" by including the archetypal Wandering Jew. (courtesy of Cambridge University Press) In this excerpt from "Ethan Brand's Homecoming," Rita K. Gollin reminds the reader that Ethan Brand is self-isolated. (courtesy of Cambridge University Press) In this excerpt from Hawthorne's Fiction: The Light and the Dark, Richard Harter Fogle focuses on Ethan Brand's Unpardonable Sin as due to his assuming he has become as the gods. (courtesy of University of Oklahoma Press) In this excerpt from Hawthorne's Fiction: The Light and the Dark, Richard Harter Fogle focuses on the physical and spiritual alienation of Ethan Brand's Unpardonable Sin. (courtesy of University of Oklahoma Press) In this excerpt from Hawthorne's Fiction: The Light and the Dark, Richard Harter Fogle explains how Brand's laugh is an expression of his isolation. (courtesy of University of Oklahoma Press) This excerpt from Richard Harter Fogle's Hawthorne's Fiction: The Light and the Dark, suggests to us that Brand's expression of his isolation may also be a warning to other would-be seekers. (courtesy of University of Oklahoma Press) This excerpt, from Richard Harter Fogle's Hawthorne's Fiction: The Light and the Dark, clarifies the difference between Ethan Brand's sin and the sin of the villagers. (courtesy of University of Oklahoma Press) In the chapter from Salem Is My Dwelling Place from which these excerpts are drawn, Edwin Haviland Miller puts in the context of Hawthorne's life at the time, Hawthorne's writing of "Ethan Brand". The reader can find parallels between the theme of alienation in the story and in Hawthorne's life. (courtesy of University of Iowa Press)