The Custom-House Introduction

This intro is unique. The narrator works at the Salem Customs House and comes across a manuscript with a Scarlet Letter. This manuscript is written by a previous worker of the Salem Customs House. The narrator decides to write about the incident. He loses his position of employment. He uses writing as therapy. The narrator is a devote Puritan and this will make the subject quite interesting from his point of view.

I found this section really hard to read. I hope that Hawthorne's style isn't like this all the way through...

I found it hard to read too. I used the Spark Notes and that helped a lot. It is a unique way to introduce a book.

I found the intro to be long and tedious. I wanted to get on with the story! I chose between one of two books at the library and one did not even have the intro which i thought was interesting.
i thought the manuscript may have been written by a relative of the narrator. did either of you guys?
this is the second book we have read that the author perports to 'find' the manuscript...

Which was the other book that was read by the narrator from a manuscript? How quickly we forget.

Don Quixote...was 'gathered' by Cervantes and presented.

Oh yeah. How quickly we forget.