Roger Chillingworth is one of the many unique characters in the book, The Scarlet Letter. He is the face of evil in the novel as he uses his smarts to inflict physical and psychological torture to Dimmesdale. He is an older man with a deformed stature and an evil look in his eye. He could be considered as a “leech” in the book as he feeds on the destruction of others such as Arthur Dimmesdale. His mental psyche is somewhat that of a madman or crazy individual because he lives and breathes off of torturing those that have wronged him. As the book tells us, he was not a good husband to Hester as he was normally inattentive to her but always expected her to love him anyway. She eventually left him for this and he somewhat dislikes her for
