Class, culture, and the trouble with white skin in Hawthorne's The House of Seven Gables.

Focuses on the class, culture and racial undertones in `The House of Seven Gables,' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Ambivalence of Hawthorne towards the lower class; Utilization of racial tropes in class distinction; Reflection of the failure of upper-class whiteness in the paleness of Judge Pyncheon; Resolution of class differences in the marriage of Holgrave into the Pyncheon family.