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WAS NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE GAY
Melville fell love wh the dashgly handsome olr thor the first time they met, and his forbidn passn drove him to create the symbol of impossible longg that now reprents Amerin lerature to the rt of the world: the whe has never before been nsired a work of romantic longg, but here are five reasons to believe that Melville’s masterpiece is a profound statement of love The SymbolThe ia that Moby-Dick exprs Melville’s impossible love for Hawthorne explas many otherwise perplexg featur of the ntas sr of homoerotic imag and scen, cludg the weddg of Ishmael and Queequeg the Chapter lled “A Bosom Friend.