Hester Prynne And Mr. Dimmesdale In The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter, we see that people, such as Hester Prynne and Mr. Dimmesdale, act differently around different people or groups of people. After Hester got pregnant and gave birth to Pearl, the townspeople saw her in a different light. “Lonely was Hester’s situation, and without a friend on earth who dared to show himself[...]” (pg. 67). Hester feels guilty because of her sin and she tries to take that guilt and do good, like making clothes for the poor. She was worried about what the townspeople would say about Pearl because she came from sin. While Hester and Pearl are with Dimmesdale, however, they feel differently than they do around the townspeople. “[...] there came what seemed a tumultuous rush of