Hester Prynne’s crime had several effects on her character including the ways she relates to other people in the book including her daughter, Pearl, husband, Roger Chillingworth, and the other people of the colony. Her crime made people look at her in many different ways and they all had some little effect on her character.
Hester’s crime changed the way she acted around her daughter, Pearl. Pearl is always with her mother so she gets to see the slight differences in the way she treats different people she encounters. Hester sees a lot of herself in Pearl, perhaps too much. She asks Pearl one day “Tell me, then, what thou art, and who sent thee hither?” Pearl answers in a laughing way “Tell me Mother!” Hester says tha
Hester doesn’t think of herself as someone who belongs. Everyone in the town, including the children avoid her. She can’t seem to relate to them. She never puts herself in their place. How would she react to a married woman having someone else’s baby? Would she be doing the same things as these other mothers who tell their children to fear her? Or would she see herself in that position and try to become friends with them, try to make life easier to bear?
Hester doesn’t see Chillingworth’s side of things. She doesn’t seem to want to understand where he is coming from with his strong hatred for Pearl’s true father. I think that she does understand why he doesn’t want to be known. He doesn’t want everyone in the town to think of him as
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