But Hester cheated on him with another guy. Chillingworth could have killed Pearl when she was sick in jail, but instead he gave her medicine and took care of her. “Foolish woman! responded the physician, half coldly, half soothingly, What should ail me to harm this misbegotten and miserable babe?” (Hawthorne 50). Chillingworth always was nice to Hester and Pearl but Hester thinks of him wrong and was thinking of him as an enemy. If Hester did not look at Chillingworth as an enemy, then Chillingworth would have helped Hester when Pearl was growing
But Hester cheated on him with another guy. Chillingworth could have killed Pearl when she was sick in jail, but instead he gave her medicine and took care of her. “Foolish woman! responded the physician, half coldly, half soothingly, What should ail me to harm this misbegotten and miserable babe?” (Hawthorne 50). Chillingworth always was nice to Hester and Pearl but Hester thinks of him wrong and was thinking of him as an enemy. If Hester did not look at Chillingworth as an enemy, then Chillingworth would have helped Hester when Pearl was growing