There are several argument about who is the model for the philanthropist

Hollingsworth. Japanese researcher Niwa point out that he was modeled after the real person,

for example George Ripley, Theodore Parker and Orestes Brownson, who was the ideological

leaders of the Brook Farm and this is major opinion. However there is another argument that

the model for this person exist more closer to Hawthornes own life; Erlich says that

Hollingsworth is modeled after Robert Manning, the uncle of the writer.

This researcher indicate that Hawthornes childhood situation is refracted in the

adult utopian community of Blithedale, which is dominated by the parental figures of

Zenobia and the stern philanthropist Hollingsworth. (Erlich 96) When Hawthorne was a

young child, he lost his father by disease and was raised up by the Uncle Robert Manning.

Those Hollingsworth and Uncle Robert have common point. In this part, the author will

discuss the the possibility that Uncle Robert is the original form of Hollingsworth in The

Blithedale Romance.

Miles Coverdale, the protagonist of this novel , use the word iron to express the

character of this Philanthropist. In Chapter IV, Coverdale explain Hollingsworths feature like

this.

He was then about thirty years old, but looked several older, with his great shaggy

head, his head, his heavy brow, his dark complexion, his abundant beard, and the
 rude strength with which his feature seemed to have been hammered out of iron,

rather than chiseled or moulded from any finer or softer material. (28)

In this sentence, Coverdale emphasis the iron-like strength than softness of Hollingsworths

character. In fact Uncle Roberts nature was also iron-like. Although he has many older

brothers and sisters, he took the responsible for the business of the Mannings, after he lose his

grandfather. As Hollingsworth control Coverdale, Robert Manning control Hawthorne .