Scarlet Letter Response

The Scarlet Letter

Is a book about a woman named Hester Prynne, who was forced by her community to wear a scarlet letter A on her bosom, because she committed adultery and became pregnant.

Hester’s husband, Roger Chillingworth, decides to take revenge with many assaults on the weak mental state of old Arthur Dinsdale, who he believes is the one who has wronged him. Meanwhile Hester is living alone in seclusion from the community and raising her little girl Pearl. After seven years of being alone and everyone always staring at the scarlet letter, she runs into Arthur Dinsdale, the minister, in the forest. Now after seven years of hiding his terrible secret old Author Dinsdale feels a huge amount of guilt and shame. He and Hester finally

Three days later they are all at the parade Arthur Dinsdale reads his speech aloud to the audience. it was a beautiful speech that had everyone very emotional.

The parade ended and while everyone was heading to the feast that was being served in his honor. He spots Hester all alone in the middle of this circle with Pearl. While he is being paraded out of the town square. He stops and turns around and announces to everyone the secret that he had been hiding for so many years. That he was the man who hid himself in shame while Hester took all the blame.

He called them to him and at that moment he said “Hester, I am a dying man. So let me make haste to take my shame upon me.” Turning to all the people who were watching he held Hester and little Pearl’s hand. Now with all this excitement it took a toll on Mr.Dinsdale and he died that very day.

Not many people knew what happened to Hester and Pearl after that day, some say that Pearl grew up, married, and still took care of Hester in her old age.

At the end of Hester’s life she returned to the town she once lived in and died there being buried next to Arthur Dinsdale. On the grave stone it said “On a field, stable, the letter A,