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Analyze the characters in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" and list their traits. Cite evidence from the story to support your analysis.

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Mr. Medbourne’s character is greedy. This is evident from the way in which he lived his life. He "had been a prosperous merchant, but had lost his all by a frantic speculation." Colonel Killigrew is gluttonous or lustful. He indulged in sinful pleasures, and his gluttony becomes more apparent after he consumes the elixir and begins to leer at the young widow. Mr. Gascoigne is pompous and loves to listen to himself speak. "Now he rattled forth full-throated sentences about patriotism, national glory, and the people's right; now he muttered some perilous stuff or other, in a sly and doubtful whisper." Widow Wycherly, who is transfixed by her own beauty when she becomes young again, is vain and can’t stop admiring herself in the mirror: "She thrust her face close to the glass, to see whether some long-remembered wrinkle or crow's foot had indeed vanished." Dr. Heidegger is shown as a wise old doctor who has lived a good life and is comfortable in his old age. He does not harbor any desire to repeat his youth.
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The question above wants to assess your ability to analyze and interpret a text and its characters. For that reason, it's not right for me to write this review for you, but I'll show you how to do it.

First, you should read "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" and make a list of the most relevant characters so that you can remember them all.

After this reading, you can analyze the characters as follows:

  • Identify the physical traits of these characters such as height, hair and eye color, skin color, body shape, and any other physical element that appears in the narration.
  • Identify each character's personality and how they behave. This can be described in the narration or in the way the character acts during the story.
  • Identify the relevance of the character within the story, that is, identify the role of these characters.

To help you with this, you can search for articles that review this book and show a review of the characters.

More information:

https://brainly.com/question/6360145?referrer=searchResults

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