In chapter 18 or “A Flood of Sunshine”, Hester has just thrown away the scarlet letter that has been on the front of her chest for the last seven years as well as taking off her cap and letting her hair down. She is transformed from a gloomy, sullen character to being full of life again. If was as if the world had been on her shoulders and she has finally cast it off. The forest area where she is standing is suddenly overcome with sunshine and the quote mentions how love will always create sunshine. Her love, her passion, that has been held prisoner for many long years is finally revealing itself to the world again. Hester is showing what she is truly like without the burden of the scarlet letter, what she used to be like at one time. The
