At the end of the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dimmesdale finally confesses his greatest sin. On election day Dimmesdale prepares to give his sermon to the public. Many people find his sermon to be very moving and empowering, and praise him on what they say is his best sermon yet. At the end of the procession he walks anxiously out to the scaffold one last time. He calls Hester and Pearl up to the scaffold to support him and begins his confession. Dimmesdale says “There was no place so secret, - no high place nor lowly place, where thou couldst have escapes me, - save on this very scaffold!” (219-220). One of the meanings of this quote is that Dimmesdale can finally escape the guilt that he has been holding onto for so
