In a very similar manner, Mr. Dimmesdale of The Scarlet Letter struggles with the image he presents of himself to his town of Boston. Hester, the married woman with which he had an affair, has been restricted to a life of public humiliation and isolation, while Mr. Dimmesdale’s association with the sin has gone unnoticed. When he truly confronts his sin for the first time in the woods with Hester and Pearl, Me. Dimmesdale is filled with shame. He explains to Pearl, that he will reveal his sin on judgement day by stating, “Then, and there, before the judgment seat, thy mother, and thou, and I, must stand together. But the daylight of this world shall not see our meeting!” (Hawthorne 105). Mr. Dimmesdale does not wish for the town to hear his
