She comes from an impoverished but genteel English family, having lived in a "decayed house of gray stone, with a poverty stricken aspect, but retaining a half-obliterated sheild of arms over the portal, in token of antique gentility." But e

Although Hester eventually wins acceptance by the town's people because of her community service, it is not until after the death of her secret lover, Reverend Dimmsdale, and the marriage of her daughter that she is able to return to the town. There she becomes a revered figure in the community, one to whom "people brought all their sorrows and perplexities, and besought her counsel."

ven without that specific indication of her high birth, the reader would know that Hester is a lady, from her bearing and pride. Especially in Chapter two, when she bravely faces the humiliation of the scaffold: "And never had Hester Prynne appeared more lady-like, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison,"

Hester's daughter, Pearl, is "a blessing and is a reminder of her sin."

As if the scarlet A were not enough punishment there "was a brat of that hellish breed" which would remind Hester of what had happened in the past. The "brat" could have been

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