霍桑在《帶七個尖角閣的房子》中通過書寫大團圓結局,不僅表達了其羅曼司的想象維度,并據此提出了他的歷史哲學:表面上迂回曲折的歷史會在上帝的指引下呈現出一個更高層次的連貫秩序和幸福美滿的發展模式,只有回歸對上帝的信仰并成為能動的歷史主體,人類才能推動歷史在漸進的基礎上實現螺旋式的辯證發展;而且表達了其羅曼司的現實維度:在內戰陰云的籠罩下,南方和北方只有回歸體現上帝意志的美國憲法,才能避免可能出現的國家分裂和民族危機。

In The House of the Seven Gables,Hawthorne creates a happy ending,and thus reveals not only the imaginary dimension of his Romance but also his philosophy of history:though histories experienced by people can be devious,tortuous and inscrutable,they will in fact at a higher level provide a benevolent pattern; only by holding fast to the Providence and becoming initiative can human beings contribute to the historical development in a spiral,dialectical way on the basis of gradualism. Moreover,Hawthorne illuminates the realistic dimension of his Romance in The House of the Seven Gables. Confronted with the impending clouds of the Civil War,Hawthorne expresses his concern for his motherland and tries to admonish his contemporaries that only by reaffirming their faith in the Providence and preserving the incarnation of God’s will,the American Constitution,can they avoid the Civil War and keep the motherland as a whole.