Also when one of the women stated that they saw Hester throw up, that meant she was with child. "Gossip was the way people would communicate with each other by word to mouth and gossiping about people in their colony" Mary Fogle (2003). Gossiping spread swiftly at church, court days or public gatherings. Indentured servants were used in the movie when Hester shows up to purchase three of them to work on her land as agricultural laborers. As she's purchasing the servants the auctioneer asked her, "Shouldn't your husband or father be doing business with me?" (The Scarlet Letter). Women were allowed to conduct financial dealings and other matters if their fathers or husbands were absent or ill. Indentured servants were people who had signed a contract to work for several years to pay off their passages to the New World (Gundersen, J.R., 2014). In the movie Hester ask the auctioneer, "How many years did the servants have left on their contract?" (The Scarlet Letter). .
In The Scarlet Letter the governor asks Hester if she committed a sin. Hester replies by stating, "Who is to say what is a sin in God's eyes" (The Scarlet Letter). This shows social part on religion because everyone else believed that one should live by the book, the Bible. Religion had a strong influence on the social and political life of the colonist. Faith was central to the puritan experience; it was a source from which all other aspects of their society and values emerged (Gundersen, J.R., 2014). Church was a big part of the colonist community. The movie portrayed this by showing the scene where the colonist gathered on the Sabbath and everyone attended. In the background no negotiations were occurring as it showed in the earlier scene when she purchased the indentured servants. After church it was shown that the colonists gathered socially. In history this was called the Sabbath. The colonies set aside Sunday as a day of worship.