“The Christmas Banquet” by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a short story published in 1844 in the American magazine Magazine and Democratic Review. It is a reworking of an earlier unpublished story “Allegories of the Heart,” which also featured the character Elliston. The story revolves around Elliston, a wealthy man who is suffering from a lack of human connection and emotion. He decides to write a story about a feast that is funded by a misanthropic old man, where the ten most unhappy people are invited to celebrate the holiday together. This story is meant to illustrate the plight of those who have no connection to their lives and feel nothing.
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