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Matthew Maule
Jaffrey is Clifford and Hepzibah’s eccentric, melancholy uncle. He has an interest in the Pyncheon family history, and his research leads him to determine that Matthew Maule’s property was wrongfully taken and that perhaps the House of the Seven Gables (which is built on the land that Colonel Pyncheon took from Maule) should be given up for this reason. Soon after this, Jaffrey is found dead, and Clifford takes the blame for it, leading to decades of imprisonment. Later, it comes out that Jaffrey’s other nephew, Judge Pyncheon, was the one truly connected to his death.
Uncle Jaffrey Pyncheon Quotes in The House of the Seven Gables
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Chapter 15
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Men of strong minds, great force of character, and a hard texture of the sensibilities are very capable of falling into mistakes of this kind. They are ordinarily men to whom forms are of paramount importance. Their field of action lies among the external phenomena of life. They possess vast ability in grasping, and arranging, and appropriating to themselves the big, heavy, solid unrealities, such as gold, landed estate, offices of trust and emolument, and public honors. With these materials, and with deeds of goodly aspect, done in the public eye, an individual of this class builds up, as it were, a tall and stately edifice, which, in the view of other people, and ultimately in his own view, is no other than the man's character, or the man himself. Behold, therefore, a palace!
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Uncle Jaffrey Pyncheon Quotes in The House of the Seven Gables
The The House of the Seven Gables quotes below are all either spoken by Uncle Jaffrey Pyncheon or refer to Uncle Jaffrey Pyncheon. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 15
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Men of strong minds, great force of character, and a hard texture of the sensibilities are very capable of falling into mistakes of this kind. They are ordinarily men to whom forms are of paramount importance. Their field of action lies among the external phenomena of life. They possess vast ability in grasping, and arranging, and appropriating to themselves the big, heavy, solid unrealities, such as gold, landed estate, offices of trust and emolument, and public honors. With these materials, and with deeds of goodly aspect, done in the public eye, an individual of this class builds up, as it were, a tall and stately edifice, which, in the view of other people, and ultimately in his own view, is no other than the man's character, or the man himself. Behold, therefore, a palace!
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