Sassy Pants The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines sassy as having or showing a rude lack of respect, very stylish, and confident and energetic. The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, shows the life of Hester Prynne. The novel begins with Hester being forced to stand on top of a scaffold in front of the townspeople because she committed adultery. After that, for a long period of her life, she lives with being shunned without inclusion with her community. Not only that, but she must deal with Roger Chillingworth, her husband, living with and taking care of Arthur Dimmesdale, the person with whom she committed adultery. Dimmesdale and Hester’s sin resulted in Pearl, who the community views as a devil child, and it is this child
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Hester sees Pearl with a seaweed “A” on her chest, and asks her child if she knows what the letter means. Pearl connects the letter to Dimmesdale, but that is all she knows and when Pearl inquires her mother for the real reason Hester wears the letter. She answers, but apparently not to the likings of Pearl because on their way home she asks multiple times looking for an answer that Pearl deems correct. But the child did not see fit to let the matter drop. “Two or three times, as her mother and she went homeward, [...] Pearl looked up, with mischief gleaming in her black eyes. ‘Mother,’ said she, ‘what does the scarlet letter mean?’” (178). She continues to question her mother throughout the night, even though Hester never answers. Pearl does not fully understanding to drop the subject until her mother tells her to “hold thy tongue” (178). However, Pearl questions her mother looking for an answer Hester dismisses. When Pearl questions her the first couple times, Hester ridicules Pearl telling her it is a silly question to ask that there are more things for a child to put interest into. Regardless, Pearl’s continuation of questioning Hester brings out her true sassiness. Her rudeness is not just limited to her mother it continues on to Hester’s lover,
Hester sees Pearl with a seaweed “A” on her chest, and asks her child if she knows what the letter means. Pearl connects the letter to Dimmesdale, but that is all she knows and when Pearl inquires her mother for the real reason Hester wears the letter. She answers, but apparently not to the likings of Pearl because on their way home she asks multiple times looking for an answer that Pearl deems correct. But the child did not see fit to let the matter drop. “Two or three times, as her mother and she went homeward, [...] Pearl looked up, with mischief gleaming in her black eyes. ‘Mother,’ said she, ‘what does the scarlet letter mean?’” (178). She continues to question her mother throughout the night, even though Hester never answers. Pearl does not fully understanding to drop the subject until her mother tells her to “hold thy tongue” (178). However, Pearl questions her mother looking for an answer Hester dismisses. When Pearl questions her the first couple times, Hester ridicules Pearl telling her it is a silly question to ask that there are more things for a child to put interest into. Regardless, Pearl’s continuation of questioning Hester brings out her true sassiness. Her rudeness is not just limited to her mother it continues on to Hester’s lover,