Nathaniel Hawthorne
I've decided that I like Hester. I like that she sewed on the red "A" on her blouse as if it were something to embroider or decorate. The women of the town of course are outraged and want to rip it off. One woman even thinks of Hester so disgustingly that she thinks the penalty for her sin should be death. The women are all furious with her, and they all agree that if they were the judges they'd be far less merciful.
I also think that it is absurd that Hester won't tell anyone who she committed adultery with. Let the disgusting man step forward! He sits behind laughing at this poor woman for committing the same crime as he. She is being threatened! Why aren't the Puritans on man-hunt for the man who impregnated Hester? Misogyny at its finest.
However, some people sympathize with Hester. One says they can feel every stitch in her chest. Hester obviously is miserable too, this scene reveals Hester's past without presenting us the
details of her crime, and it ends with the revelations of the
consequence of this past: "These were her realities—all else had
vanished."
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