Hawthorne’s novels are featured with visual narratives, which work as a dialogue with the divine visual experiences depicted in Emersonian transcendentalism, as well as with the ocular-centrism rooted in the dualism in the Western tradition. In creating the enigmatic image of Pearl by means of representing subject différance, subject construction, and intersubjective ethics, Hawthorne employs visual narrative strategies to represent the visual aspects of subjectivity and to lay bare the social, psychological, and ethical elements in intersubjective visual experiences, so as to deconstruct the transcendentalist view of the essentialist subject.