7. Complete the Summary

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The Great Stone Face, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is an interesting,  short story. It is woven around the character named . Ernest, inspired by the  narrated by his mother on The Great Stone Face,  its arrival from his  days.

 

The legend is, a child will be born  this image, exhibiting  qualities. Such a divine kid would be the  person of his age. He spent hours  at the Great Stone Face every day, once his  work gets completed. When there is a rumour on the arrival of such a person resembling a great stone face, his inner voice dismissed it with a reason, that it is not so. It is because he couldn’t relate that person (Mr. Gathergold) to the Great Stone Face.

 

 

The rumour did not last long but when  died in poverty, people refused to accept him to be the human Great Stone Face. Ernest still awaited its arrival. Again a day came, when a chief  who is the citizen of the valley, , to live his final days in his native. People again portrayed him to be the human Great Stone Face.

 

 

Again, Ernest dismissed the claim with the reason he does not resemble its appearance. His  to see the human figure of The Great Stone Face never ended till the end, but .