In the opening chapters we first begin to learn about Hester, but never about the man she committed adultery with. While on the scaffold the townspeople gather around her and watch as the magistrates try to convince her to tell who the man was. “Wondrous strength and generosity of a woman’s heart!”(Hawthorne 70) Hester loved this man so much she felt that it was no need for her to bring him down with her. So she stood up on the scaffold with the baby in her arms “ And would that I might endure his agony, as well as mine!” (Hawthorne 71) Hester realizes that if she confesses the name of the man that it would not help them to be together but instead making it completely impossible.

As the story progresses we learn more

I believe throughout the whole story that Hester wanted terribly for her and Dimmesdale to be able to share their love. Even if that meant leaving to another country and being together. Yet Dimmesdale was more concerned about God forgiving him. He couldn’t confess yet alone confess his love toward Hester. As the book progresses Dimmesdale begins to love his daughter Pearl.

When we start to learn about Arthur Dimmesdale, we learn more about his suffering from the guilt he has carried. When Dimmesdale began to become ill for what seem to be no physical reason; Roger Chillingworth, who happened to be Hester’s husband, tried to help the young clergy man out because he was a physician. “ I need no medicine.” (Hawthorne 125) This showed that Dimmesdale sickness was deeper than any physical problem. It was like he was suffering from something in his soul. Roger Chillingworth started to figure out that a sin or something Mr. Dimmesdale was hiding was “eating” him up inside. “They grew out of his heart, and typify, it may be, some hideous secret that was buried with him, and which he had done better to confess during his lifetime.” (Hawthorne 135) By Roger Chillingworth saying this to Dimmesdale about the herbs that he found shows that he knows something and is hinting to Dimmesdale that all his pain and suffering would cease once he just confessed to his sin. “Earnestly he desired it, but could not.” (Hawthorne 135) This shows that Dimmesdale wants to confess his sin to save his soul but he know the consequences of doing so, and he realizes that it is not worth it. “ The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets, must perf

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