Beginning in chapter 1 Hawthorne immediately shows Hester's elegance and how beautiful she is although she is a sinner in a Puritan community. He describes her as a “young woman that was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale”(46). His excessive use of positive diction shows that he looks at Hester like a beautiful woman rather than an adulteress. This syntax of his attitude confuses the reader because adultery is not looked at as beautiful nor elegant. The woman of Hester’s Puritan community look at Hester as ugly and a disgrace to their community. Her sin of adultery makes all woman of that community seem as sinners. .Hester shows her sin with “was that SCARLET LETTER so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her
