1.	Nathaniel Hawthorne's life

2.	Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and its influences on the composition of The House of the Seven Gables

3.

The plot

4.	The Ending of the romance

"Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and its influences on the composition
of The House of the Seven Gables

The plot of the romance is closely interwoven with the history of the Hawthorne family.
The great-grandfather of Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Hawthorne, was a magistrate at Salem in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and officiated at the famous trials for witchcraft held there. He treated his victims with severity and it is told that a certain woman he sentenced to death prophesied that God would take revenge upon her persecutors. This circumstance at no doubt appears in the book, when the Colonel Pyncheon of a former generation persecuted Matthew Maule. For the similarity to be even greater, this Matthew Maule in the book declared that God would give his enemy "blood to drink." The Hawthorne family was convinced that the curse is still in force, this conviction continued in the time of Nathaniel. This again appears in the romance, where the Pyncheon family is cursed for generations.
There are even more similarities. There was a certain Philip English, a character well-known in the Salem annals. He was one of those who suffered under the cruel hand of John Hawthorne and he told that he would be a lasting feund of Hathorne's family and that he would never forgive. At his death Philip English left daughters, one of whom have married the son of Justice John Hathorne. This clearly foretells the final union of those hereditary enemies, the Maules and Pyncheons, when Phoebe and Holgrave are married.
The House of Seven Gables is also based on fact, though it is not so clear as the previous two examples that I mentioned. Nathaniel Hawthorne's description of the old dwelling with seven gables seemed to conform to several houses in Salem. A great effort have been made to find the very mansion that was a model for Hepzibah's house in the romance. Such house had been found and thousands of tourists visit it every year, in spite of the fact that this house has no such tales and myths in its history as Hawthorne has written.
There are some more hints on facts in Hawthorne's life that are likely to influence the composition of the romance, but they seem less clear to me. A case of murder occurred in Salem a few years after Hawthorne's graduation from college. It was a murder of Mr. White, a wealthy gentleman of Salem, killed by a man whom his nephew had hired. This event Hathorne embodied in the romance, the victim being one of the Pyncheons and the murderer his nephew, Clifford Pyncheon. But such resemblances are only fragmentary, because the details in reality were changed by the author as it was needed for the composition. "