Exercise in Interpretation / 2

We are now going to put all this theory into practice again through the interpretation of a narrative, a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864), a prominent figure of American Romanticism. Read “The Artist of the Beautiful” (1846) carefully and try to find the above explained elements and techniques of narrative fiction:

http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/124/

We are going to go through the steps of interpretation which were introduced under the interpretive exercise for poetry.