Roger Chillingworth and Arthur Dimmesdale have on-going obstacles working against their happiness and physical well-being but they handle their issues in entirely different ways. For example, Roger has the issue of his wife being pregnant with another man’s child and Arthur has the problem of not being able to with the woman and child that he loves. Instead of silently and intellectually handling the matter, like Chillingworth did, Dimmesdale punished himself multiple ways and took it harshly towards his own from constant guilt. Along with other problems both the men have, it continues to have the same result, leading to one having the solution and the other still panicking. Arthur Dimmesdale, a reverend in the town of Salem, fell in love
