Mary

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Mary is one of the two recently widowed sisters at the center of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story "The Wives of the Dead," whose night of grief and unsettling news drives the tale’s emotional tension.

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instanceOf fictional character
literary character
appearsIn The Wives of the Dead NERFINISHED
centralConflict coping with news about her supposedly dead husband
countryOfOriginOfWork United States of America
surface form: United States
emotionalState grief
familyStatus recently widowed
firstPublicationOfWork 1832
gender female
hasSibling Margaret NERFINISHED
languageOfWork English
literaryPeriodOfWork American Romanticism NERFINISHED
maritalStatus widow
name Mary NERFINISHED
narrativeRole protagonist
relationToTitle one of the wives of the dead GENERATED
settingOfEvents New England seaport (implied)
siblingType sister
themeInvolvement bereavement
hope and despair
uncertainty
timeInStory one night
workAuthor Nathaniel Hawthorne NERFINISHED
workForm short story

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