Furthermore,
she continues with her loose speculations by
discussing an idea out of a textbook written by Thomas C. Upham, one of
Hawthorne’s professors, that had been published two years after Hawthorne had
graduated.
She cites a
description of dreams from the book, which states,
“Dreams can become wild and incoherent because they are not
corrected by perceptions of reality or disciplined by the will….” (Gollin/p.26). If perchance Hawthorne had read this book, it does not sound like a description
of a man whose will urges him to go against his entire world
by breaking the unanimous consent into evil with a
minority shout of, “Faith!…look up to heaven, and resist the
wicked one.” (Hawthorne/p.945). Furthermore, if one is to
consider the dream-vision analysis, then one must find an
indication that points to Brown falling asleep.