... the book. In chapter two while Hester is standing on the scaffold, she tries to hid from her grim reality by reminiscing of the better days of her youth. Hawthorne notes, "she saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty, and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it." Hester knows ... Hester's bosom!" This passage reveals that Pearl is a part of the scarlet letter, and that she feels emotionally void when she realizes her mother had abandoned the emblem on the ground. The weak mortality of Reverend Dimmesdale is also depicted by Nathani...

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