Aside from Hester’s biased perspective through which the story is told, Reid expands on both the actual interpretation of Roger Chillingworth and his unspoken role in Pearl’s duplicit father-complex and upbringing. Reid supports her claim by including detailed explanations such as refuting other counterarguments with details such as the entailment of Hester’s biased viewpoint, and evidence while also repeatedly mentioning the Hawthorne’s parental deprivation and ambivalence. Reid successfully illustrates the misperceptions of Roger Prynne’s character and establish his fatherly role in Pearl Prynne’s life in order to accurately understand the transition of Pearl from a wild ‘witch-baby’ to a lady heiress and to emphasize the typical bias of perspectives through a certain
Aside from Hester’s biased perspective through which the story is told, Reid expands on both the actual interpretation of Roger Chillingworth and his unspoken role in Pearl’s duplicit father-complex and upbringing. Reid supports her claim by including detailed explanations such as refuting other counterarguments with details such as the entailment of Hester’s biased viewpoint, and evidence while also repeatedly mentioning the Hawthorne’s parental deprivation and ambivalence. Reid successfully illustrates the misperceptions of Roger Prynne’s character and establish his fatherly role in Pearl Prynne’s life in order to accurately understand the transition of Pearl from a wild ‘witch-baby’ to a lady heiress and to emphasize the typical bias of perspectives through a certain