Scarlet Letter

Third Shorter Paper

The Scarlet Letter

In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author wants us to sympathize more with Hester’s return and conformity. Hester took Pearl and left the village about a year after Dimmesdale died. She took Pearl away with her new inheritance so that she could have a proper childhood and grow up without the stigma of being a bastard child. However, whenever Pearl got to an age where she was fine without her mother, Hester came back to the village. She took back up her scarlet letter and spent the rest of her days wearing and counseling all these sad and upset women. She could have stayed with her daughter who loved her and needed her, but instead she chose to come back to this village where they had all judged her and saw her only by her shame. She spent the rest of her life helping these women, a lot of whom had condemned her to death when she had committed her sin. Still, Hester wants something