Hester and Dimmesdale were two very different people with two very different reactions to their same sin. With all the differences there is a handful of similarities between the two lovers whose love was just a sin. Being two very different people with different personalities and traits they handled their feeling and action toward the sin and punishment of it very differently. With Dimmesdale career and life, it is a great surprise that he was the one who Hester sinned with. The young minster was well respected and everyone cared for him. It is no surprise that a man of God would feel the shame and guilt Dimmesdale did. He was very sorry for his action and even went as far as to torture himself from guilt. He was a good man with a gut wrenching
