A penetrating analysis into Hawthorne's writings of different periods and different angles brings us not only an astonishment at his unique understanding of evil, but also a definite awareness of his opposite but staunch position as a pessimist.Meanwhile, following the discussions about Melville and other writers, his influences of pessimistic ideas and belief in evil allow of no doubt. Subsequently, through an inquisition to the roots of this tragic attitude, his standpoint is found to be inevitable.
