“ She bore in her arms a child, a baby of some three months old, who winked and turned aside its little face from the too vivid light of day; because its existence, heretofore, had brought it acquainted only with the gray twilight of a dungeon, or other darksome apartment of the prison” (Hawthorne 50). In this excerpt we are able to analyze the fact that her sins are set forth and it is obvious that she is guilty of this crime allowing us to ask “Who is the father?” pieces come together in the story in the beginning allowing us to know more than the characters throughout the story. We see Hester judged and condemned for her sins, the letter on her chest places her in her own world of isolation and it seems as if she’ll be the one who suffers in this novel, but as the chapters progress we notice she isn’t the one living with the
“ She bore in her arms a child, a baby of some three months old, who winked and turned aside its little face from the too vivid light of day; because its existence, heretofore, had brought it acquainted only with the gray twilight of a dungeon, or other darksome apartment of the prison” (Hawthorne 50). In this excerpt we are able to analyze the fact that her sins are set forth and it is obvious that she is guilty of this crime allowing us to ask “Who is the father?” pieces come together in the story in the beginning allowing us to know more than the characters throughout the story. We see Hester judged and condemned for her sins, the letter on her chest places her in her own world of isolation and it seems as if she’ll be the one who suffers in this novel, but as the chapters progress we notice she isn’t the one living with the