Chillingworth’s character changes from Hawthorne’s portrayal of a venerable and benevolent man to a manipulative and selfish individual. Chillingworth becomes the Reverend’s “leech” that uses his intuition to sense a grea

The ending of chapter ten forebodes future inquiry on Chillingworth’s behalf that will lead to a great revelation, hinted by Hawthorne, in Arthur Dimmesdale’s spirit. Chillingworth is determined to endless scrutiny until he finds out what the Reverend is hiding. The physician is an authentic example of the proverb “keep your friends close and you enemy closer”; thus, making the weakened Dimmesdale trust him, keeping him close to stab him in the back.

Mr. Chillingworth’s inquisitions are clever and pose questions that seem to inflict anxiety and worry in the clergyman that exteriorize his vulnerability. When Roger asks Dimmesdale, “You would tell me, then, that I know all?”(125), the Reverend’s character is stirred and his irritability in response to the question suggests that he is hiding something that creates discomfort when asked about the matter. As a result of his illness and the inquiry by Chillingworth, Dimmesdale is seen in the chapters as weaker than in previous chapters. At the end of “The L

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