Hawthrone makes it clear that each of dr. heidegger's ancient guests represents a particular human vice or weakness. identify what each character represents. then cite at least three details in the story that support your interpretation. be sure to refer to your character chart.

The four characters of the story represent wealth (Mr. Medbourne), health (Colonel Killigrew), power (Mr. gascolgne) and beauty (Widow Wycherly).

Explanation:

The characters of the short story "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" by Nathaniel Hawthorne are "three white-bearded gentlemen, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel  Killigrew, and Mr. Gascoigne, and a withered gentlewoman, whose name was the Widow  Wycherly." They are also the test subjects for the experiment that the doctor wants to test on.

Mr. Medbourne represents wealth, Colonel Killigrew, health, Mr. Gascolgne represents power while the only female character Widow Wycherly represents beauty. The author mentions that

"Mr.  Medbourne, in the vigor of his age, had been a prosperous merchant, Colonel Killigrew had  wasted his best years, and his health and substance, in the pursuit of sinful pleasures, which  had given birth to a brood of pains, such as the gout, and divers other torments of soul and  body. Mr. Gascoigne was a ruined politician, a man of evil fame...Widow Wycherly, tradition tells us that she was a great  beauty in her day; but, for a long while past, she had lived in deep seclusion, on account of  certain scandalous stories which had prejudiced the gentry of the town against her."

The author also points out that right after they drank from the water given by the doctor, "There was a healthful  suffusion on their cheeks, instead of the ashen hue that had made them look so corpse-like". Right after the second round of drinking the water from the Fountain of Youth, "Mr. Gascoigne's mind  seemed to run on political topics, Colonel Killigrew all this time had been trolling forth a jolly  bottle song, and ringing his glass in symphony with the chorus, Mr.  Medbourne was involved in a calculation of dollars and cents, ... Widow Wycherly, she stood before the mirror to see whether some long-remembered wrinkle or  crow's foot had indeed vanished".

"facing the rising sun of our new day begun

let us march on till victory is won.",

because the rising sun is a symbol of hope.

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