In The Scarlet Letter, the Puritans forced Hester to wear a scarlet letter "A" across for her chest, for the crime of adultery. The punishment continued as Hester was treated as outcast and mocked by the town. "Tomorrow wo

"She named the infant Pearl as of being of great price-purchased with all her mother had," the narrator says. Pearl grew to be a very passionate and lively young girl. She becomes a contradicting factor in her mother's life. To her mother, Pearl symbolized the rosebush outside of the jail, because at some times she could be bright and vibrant. However at other times, she could be wilting. It was at these times when she was "wilting" that brought Hester the most grief.

One final way in which Pearl symbolized something in the novel was her association with the scarlet letter. Hester began to think of the letter and her daughter as both "the object of her affection and the emblem of her guilt and torture." Hester clothed the

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