Have you ever did something wrong but felt that it was right? After thinking about the situation, did you feel like it was the worst sin you ever committed? Did you confess at the time you realized it was wrong or did you confess because you had no other choice? In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter”, Hester Prynne, the wife to master Prynne, commits adultery with Reverend Dimmesdale. Hester does not announce that Dimmesdale …showed first 75 words of 1591 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1591 total…mean sin of adultery for Hester, but also has several symbolic meanings for many characters. Works Cited Baym, Nina. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998. Fogle, Richard Harter. Hawthorne’s Imagery. Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1969. Waggoner, Hyatt H. Hawthorne. Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963. Fogle, Richard Harter. Hawthorne’s Fiction. Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1964. Elder, Marjorie J. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Charlotte: Ohio University Press, 1969.