... and shrills in hope the town will wake and find him standing 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 election when ... gasped at how fast his health had faded. "How feeble and pale he looked, amid all his triumph"(248)! When Dimmesdale reaches the outside he climbs up the scaffold and asks Hester and Pearl to stand with him. He stands on the same s...

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