What Hawthorne cares about, and it comes up constantly throughout the book, is the inheritance that accompanies the Pyncheons and lead them down to a bitter path: "weakness, defects, dark passions, the tendency to do the evil and the moral weaknesses that lead to crime pass from one generation to another".
That way she can learn and because smarter and grown and go to college and live a life and have a family and raise them well and dies a happy person
Because people have lost common sense these days.
