A review by gengelcox
Wakefield by Nathaniel Hawthorne

reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated

0.5

An exceedingly strange thought experiment of a story of a husband who sets off on a normal journey one day but does not return to his home and wife until twenty years pass, instead taking lodgings in just one street over. I’m not entirely sure what Hawthorne’s purpose was in this tale and the lack of clarity—mainly regarding personal economics—means it has an atmosphere of some contemplation as a dream without attempting to realize how it actually might have occurred.