The Scarlet Letter was an interesting book, there were different characteristics and the different perspectives in peoples live. As the way Dimmesdale, Chillingworth, Hester, and Pearl. Lets start with Hester she wasn’t the most trustworthy person in the book, for example she had slept with Dimmesdale when Chillingworth wasn’t there. Hester was young so Chillingworth did see the fact that his wife would cheat on him. Hester could not hide the fact she was pregnant for so long and when people found out they figured it out, it didn’t take that long to realize that the baby was not Mr. Chillingworth. When this was realized she was sent to prison for adultery while she was pregnant. When she was asked who the father of the child was, Dimmesdale just stared at her. Hester never told anybody who the father was, which tortured him for seven years. Chillingworth had told Hester that he wanted to keep Pearl alive to see who she resembles as she gets older. While Pearl got older everybody had said that she was a demon child because of the way she acted. Hester had blamed herself of the way Pearl had acted because of all the feeling that she had when she was pregnant with Pearl is the way that Pearl is acting. Pearl was not really creepy she was just creepy and weird for a girl in her age. Hester had never told Pearl who her father was, but still it was as if Pearl knew who her father was. Pearl had been acting weird around Dimmesdale she would not leave him alone until she got a kiss from him on her forehead, and when that happened she just ran away incredibly weirdly. For years Dimmesdale had to live with fact that he had committed a great sin. Chillingworth had figured it out that Dimmesdale was the baby daddy. Sure Chillingworth had tortured Dimmesdale about what he did but all Chillingworth wanted was the truth about what happened. Put yourself in Chillingworth’s position wouldn’t you want the person to confess for what they had done? If it were me, I would want the person to at least to tell the truth about what happened. At the end Dimmesdale did tell the truth about what he did, so I guess he should not be called a complete coward. At least he told the truth about what happened SEVEN years later which does show how weak he was. Well at the end Dimmesdale told the truth and died short after that and a little later Chillingworth died which was obvious that would happen because of his age. Well Pearl got older and inherited Chillingworth's money and had a husband and children.
~Hareet Mann
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~Hareet Mann
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