In this chapter all the town’s people are gathered outside the prison. The prison is very old and has a big wooden door with studded iron spikes. They tell us that one of the first things they built in the new colony was a cemetery and a prison. Another important thing introduced in this chapter is the rose bush; the rose bush shows that there is growing life outside the town. It also represents beauty.
Hester walks out of the prison with a baby in her hands. With the whole crowed watching she walks to the scaffold where she must stand and listen to the crowed make fun of her and yell at her. She must also where the letter “A” on her dress which stands for Adultery, which is the reason she is standing there. While she is standing up there looking over the crowd she starts thinking of things in the past like her parents in England and an old man who she married. She squeezes her baby so hard it starts to cry.
As Hester stands on the scaffold she sees her husband who sent her to America. Her husband, Roger Chillingworth, is kind of deformed and has a hunch back. He shows up with an
Chapter XXIII: The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
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