Roger Chillingworth initially is starts off as a respected, educated, and well- known doctor in Boston who then turns to a sick, old, ugly man with revenge on his mind. An example of Chillingworth changing throughout the book is he physically starts to change. “ Old Roger Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man’s faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake the devil’s office” (Ch.14,163). In this quote it exemplifies how Chillingworth drastically changed overtime, Hester points out how he resembles the devil and is doing the devil's work by working toward vengeance. Chillingworth then goes onto claim that is Dimmesdale and Hester's fault and their sin is why he changed. Chillingworth
