... Hester Prynne thinks her husband is dead because it has been sometime since she has seen her husband. While he is gone she has an affair with Arthur Dimmesdale, and the price of this sin was a beautiful girl which she names Pearl. Hester's punishment is wearing the letter "A" on her chest to remind her ... there. The whole town will awake, and hurry forth, and find me here!"(142). But not one person awoke. The appearance of Dimmesdale gets more horrid as his health fades. Dimmesdale is literally killing himself, and living with Chillingworth is not making the situation any better. On ele...

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