the community. "Sorrow awakens her sympathies, so that she becomes a nurse. In fact, the best deeds of Hesters life come about through her fall from grace. Her charity to the poor, her comfort to the broken-hearted, her unquestioned presence in times of trouble are the direct result of her search for repentance" ("Scarlet Letter" 3). The scarlet letter A also symbolizes angel, because the letter appeared in the sky after the Governor died. The Puritan community took this as a sign from God that the Governor passed on to heaven and became an angel. The gravestone for both Dimmesdale and Hester is seen "only by one ever glowing point of light gloomier than the shadow" and the light reveals the letter A symbolizing angle. This symbolizes angel, because both Hester and Dimmesdale were united after death and their sins were forgiven (Waggoner 239 -240).One main symbol in the novel is the struggle between light and darkness, which represents the fight between good and evil. The rose bush is an example of a symbol for the struggle between light and darkness. The Scarlet Letter was suppose to have a happy conclusion and that is what the rose bush by the prison was suppose to symbolize in the first chapter. Instead, the rose just added light to Hawthornes dark tale. The forest scene in the novel is another example of the fight between darkness and light. The forest scenes showed the hardships that Hester had to face every day, such as when she reaches into the light and it moves away from her hand: "Mother, the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom. Now see! There it is, playing a good way off. Stand you here, and let me run and catch it. I am but a child. It will not flee from me, for I wear no thing on my bosom yet!" (Hawthorne 192). This scene suggests that she will never be welcome in the light and that she must stay in the forest where it is dark. Lig...
