The Scarlet Letter is a unified, masterfully written novel. It is
structured around three crucial scaffold scenes and three major characters
that are all related. The story is about Hester Prynne, who is given a
scarlet letter to wear as a symbol of her adultery. Her life is closely
tied to two men, Roger Chillingworth, her husband, and Arthur Dimmesdale,
her minister and the father of her child. Her husband is an old, misshapen
man who Hester married while still in Europe. Chillingworth s...
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