The wearers of the symbols are Reverend Hooper with his veil and Hester Prynne with her scarlet A. Here Hawthorne explains to the reader that " amid his grief, Mr. Hooper smiled to think that only a material emblem had separated him for happiness..." (pg 271) which leads us to realize that he would have had happiness but others let the veil interfere with the relationships that could have been. One of those relationships is with his soon to be wife Elizabeth. "Beloved and respected as your are, there may be whispers that your hide your face under the consciousness

The life that Dimmesdale lead was very secretive "In Mr. Dimmesdale's secret closet, under lock and key, there was a bloody scourge."(pg 99) and most of the time he was ill due to the way that he treated himself. Dimmesdale had been whipping himself through out his whole life and the bitter remorse that he felt took its toll on his body and soul. Hooper lead his life without showing any feelings of sorrow, the only thing that changed was the way that others had treated him. "There is an hour to come...when all of us shall cast aside our veils."(pg 269) which shows Hooper he felt that the world was a lot of people hiding their sins, so he did not treat himself any different. "Hooper spent a long life, irreproachable in outward act, yet shrouded in dismal suspicions; kind and loving, though unloved and dimly feared; a man apart form men..."(pg 272) Hooper finally died of old age with no one knowing the sin he had committed or why he wore the black veil. But unlike Hooper who learned to live with the sin baring down on him Dimmesdale confessed because he could not take it anymore.

of secret sin. For the sake of your holy office, do away with this scandal!"(pg 270) here she is clearly hurt and upset and later leaves him for the reason that he will not let her see his face not one time. The quote "In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it"(pg 58) suggest that Hester is considered an outcast and nobody will associate with her because she has a bad reputation. The crowd knows that she has committed adultery, and in the time of this story adultery was considered to be a dark crime. So the people do not

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