Summary Of The Bloody Hand Of Labor

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In the article, “The Bloody Hand” of Labor: Work, Class, and Gender in Three Stories by Hawthorne,”(American Quarterly 42. 4 [1990]: 542-564), Nicholas K. Bromell represents Aylmer as an artist who aims to create a perfect art. The story shows the powerful relation between the artist, Aylmer, and a woman’s body, Georgiana’s body. Bromell states, “ Georgiana's body is at once the beneficiary, the site, and the victim of Aylmer's experiment”(545). He also describes Georgiana’s birthmark as “a birth -mark” of the power to give a birth that Aylmer with all his achievements lacks that power. At the end of the story, Aylmer’s failure shows that he is unable to create an ideal woman. In the article, “Toward Daisy Miller: Cooper's Idea