“But on one side of the portal… was a wild rose-bush… which
might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner
as he went in…” (Page 45)
In this, Hawthorne is speaking of a rosebush growing by the
entrance of a prison. It is a symbol of how, in this strict Puritan society,
the only wild and free thing is this rosebush. Its beauty brings comfort to
those entering the prison, and is rumored to have been created by Ann
Hutchinson as she walked into the Boston Prison.
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