... She was a beautiful woman who was strong and the other women crowded around her because of jealousy. In that remarkable forest scene in The Scarlet Letter, the long repressed/suppressed sexuality of Hester is suddenly exposed when she releases her hair. The reader immediately recognizes that the complex art of her ... is. Hester began to fade away to nothing. She was no longer beautiful and did not have that glowing appearance in her anymore. The scarlet letter had taken over her appearance."Mother," said little Pearl, "the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, becau...

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