In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses three major characters to show that change can lead to a great or terrible outcome. He uses Hester Prynne, Reverend Dimmesdale, and Robert Chillingworth to prove this. Hester, after becoming an outcast because of her sin, transforms into a figure that the citizens begin to grow fond of. At first, after receiving the scarlet letter, the people see Hester, “as the figure, the body, the reality of sin.” (Hawthorne 70). This ultimately leads Hester to move into a small cabin on the outskirts of town. Not having anything to do with her life, Hester decides to start sewing and selling her work to the townspeople. Eventually, society, “begins to look upon the scarlet letter as the token, not of
