Was Roger Chillingworth poisoning Reverend Dimmesdale or was Dimmesdale feeling guilty about his actions? Dimmesdale became ill all of a sudden and no one knew why. There was a sharp pain in his heart, could it be from his sin or disease? Dimmesdale received help from Chillingworth, maybe Chillingworth was poisoning him, but anyways. Dimmesdale didn’t feel the pain when he stepped on the same pedestal that Hester had to stand on for hours. When he stood on the pedestal a Big ‘A’ lit up in the sky and pointed directly to his Chest. Like stated in the book “… Solely to the disease in his own eyes and heart, the minister, looking upward to the zenith, beheld there the appearance of an immense letter, - the letter A, - marked out in lines of dull red light” (107). In my opinion, I think that Satan aimed the ‘A’ at his chest, because god wouldn’t aim it on him. God knows he committed the sin, but he wouldn’t blame him for it. Also when Hester and Pearl came to stand with him, pearl asked if the reverend would return to stand with them at noon the next day and have people watch them. The reverend said that he would stand on judgment day. Pearl insisted that he stand but Reverend didn’t want to. While they were standing Chillingworth noticed Dimmesdale and Dimmesdale asked who had seen them because he didn’t want anyone to see him standing there. Chillingworth had already known that the reverend was the father so he smiled at the sight of seeing him there standing on the pedestal. I believe that Dimmesdale did begin to feel guilty because why would he go stand on the pedestal and tell Hester that he should have been standing there with them the day they made her stand there. He is now beginning to feel guilty for the things he has done.
- Diana Aguilera