Living in a Utopian Agrarian Society Isn't That Easy. 'No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change, and if our hearts do not change as readily, so much the worse for us.' Miles Coverdale decides to live for a short time in the utopian community of Blithedale. However, just like the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, who joined Unitarian utopian Brook Farm in his early teens, he doesn't find the answers he was searching for. Instead, he becomes ill and doubts the community's philosophical views and way of life. He returns to the city as a changed man

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