The passage fits into the novel by adding character to Pearl, and an important motif about the comparisons between sin and humans. As previously noted, pearl is one of a kind in this community noting things that were not thought to be there at first. She later comes to be identifying the letter with “sunshine”, that she is short of from life. Because she is only a child she doesn’t understand what she. She suddently starts to ask questions and this gets her mother upset. Making a mild suggestion that all women wear an “A”. thinking as every woman as equal and pearls mother just representing every women for wearing the letter.
Reacting to this passage as a reader, im impressed by the character of Pearl. She is a very smart girl for her age, alluding to the conclusion that every woman is equal and shouldn’t be labeled. I find the authors language powerful, due to this child seeing every women in …show more content…
A writer of story-books! What kind of a business in life,—what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation,—may that be? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler!” Such are the compliments bandied between my great-grandsires and myself, across the gulf of time! And yet, let them scorn me as they will, strong traits of their nature have intertwined themselves with mine.”(390)
This passage fits into the novel adding the plot line due to the narrations introduction molding his/her very own version of Hester. Informing us on the proper background between the narrator and Hester. Both having similarities and differences between the two changing the way the author views Hester. Overall, the narrator relates to Hester on a personal level. He thinks she’s wonderful because in a way she represents Americas past, but experiences also intertwine with the authors personal ones. So we get to view the narrators’ life in a context as well as