ties onto the narrator and mirror her true state.
             In Hawthorne's short story, The Birthmark, there are two rooms within the laboratories that Hawthorne focuses upon and describes in detail: the boudoir and the furnace room. These rooms represent a counterpoint of appearance versus reality. The boudoir represents the feminine aspect as it is a place "not unfit to be the secluded abode of a lovely woman" (Hawthorne, 154). "The walls were hung with gorgeous curtains, which imparted the combination of grandeur and grace that no other species of adornment can achieve; and as they fell from the ceiling to the floor, their rich and ponderous folds, concealing all angles and straight lines, appeared to shut the scene from infinite space. For aught Ge
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