One of the most complex and elaborate characters in The Scarlet Letter is Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale. Pearl, throughout the story, has many physical, emotional, and psychological characteristics. Her motivation, reactions to others and their reactions to her, and actions contribute to the plot of the novel. Hawthorne uses vivid descriptions to characterize Pearl. Physically, Pearl has a "beauty that became every day more brilliant."(81) Pearl is ravishing, with "beauty that shone with deep and vivid tints' a bright complexion, eyes possessing intensity both of depth and glow, and hair already of a deep, glossy brown, and which, in after years, w
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