C. Detached, stays apart. Interested in insides of people as objects. Phoebe looks inside people when it is sunny. Holgrave and plummet line. Holgrave, a mesmerist, a pseudo-science.
Artist can hypnotize.
Sacredness of individual, power, sexuality, mystery. Mesmerism will not give story happy ending. Whipple saw ending as disunified. Daryl Von Abele sees as ironic, not really happy ending. Says hawthorne had faith in possibility of redemption thorough love.