Persuasive Letter Hester A Sinner

Now this is a story all about how Hester’s life got flip turned upside down , and I’d like to take a minute just to sit right here, I’ll tell you how Hester became infamous in a town called Boston. So all and all through this story we were supposed to get out a few things, how Hester was an object, sinner, or something else, which I’ve forgotten because I didn’t think it was true, and how in the end she became a winner. For me, Hester started as a sinner, became an object used by the town, and in the end never became a winner, which I know goes against what I’m supposed to say, but saying she’s a winner just isn’t true. In the beginning Hester is in jail, dealing with the fact she committed adultery, and as such is a sinner and as punishment
receives the scarlet letter, “the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom!” (Hawthorne 41). But as another punishment is thrown up onto a scaffold pillory for all the town to see her, public shaming was a big deal back then, but compared to what the other women of the town would do it wasn’t all that much. “”Speak; and give your child a father””I will not speak!” answered Hester, turning pale as death, but responding to his voice” (Hawthorne 47). Even though they would lessen her punishment if she said who she made the child with, she would not speak his name, even more proving that she committed adultery and sinned, which was already apparent but it helps to reinforce. Through the majority of the story she is an object used by the town.
How so? “Hester Prynne went, one day, to the mansion of Governor Bellingham, with a pair of gloves, which she had fringed and embroidered to his order, and which were to be worn on some great occasion of state” (Hawthorne 68). She works as an embroiderer who crafts different kinds of fabrics to people. Throughout the seven years before we get back into the story she doesn’t really do much in the way of sin so that’s why the thing that she is has transitioned so. In fact, she’s done some work to where her reputation may have reversed in the eyes of god, work such as charity. “they had begun to look upon the scarlet letter as the token, not of that one sin, for which she had borne so long and dreary a penance, but of her many good deeds since. “Do you see that woman with the embroidered badge?” they would say to strangers. “It is our Hester,-the town’s own Hester,- who is so kind to the poor, so helpful to the sick, so comfortable to the afflicted!”” ( Hawthorne 111). Through this she turned her image around and became known as not only a good person, but also a person that can be used for
things. But like all things, this book has to come to an end, and there were actually some good parts to read in this story, but most of it was decent at best, but that’s just my own opinion, and much like that, my opinion, which I will back up with facts, is that in the end Hester was not a winner.
I know in this we’re supposed to say how she is, but let’s be honest, she lost in most ways except for the afterlife. How so? After the events of most of the story take place Hester and Pearl leave, but years later Hester comes back alone. Her daughter is what gave Hester the point to live early on in the story, and now since she’s back without her daughter she’s all alone. The reason why she stayed in the town to begin with is because the one she loved was there, but guess what, he’s dead, but still she stays. And you know what she does for work, she sits and listens to people as they spew out their problems, all that combined doesn’t exactly sound like she’s in a winner’s situation. “Women, more especially—in the continually recurring trials of wounded, wasted, wronged, misplaced, or erring and sinful passion— or with the dreary burden of a heart unyielded, because unvalued and unsought came to Hester’s cottage, demanding why they were so wretched, and what the remedy! Hester comforted and counselled them, as best she might” (Hawthorne
179).