The narrator is often uncertain about how much time has elapsed and about the physical details of the prison what does this uncertainty suggest about the narrators state of mind in the pit and the pendulum

a story is an account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment and a novel long narrative

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .