y instead of being obscured. The crowd was also upset that her scarlet letter was so nice that it almost was a thing of pride instead of punishment.She made her way into the market place and stood on the town scaffold. The crowd was somber and grave. Hester soon begins to reminisce about different events in her life. She remembers her father and mother in England. She also remembers a man that was deformed that is connected to her going to Boston. The she goes back to reality and is finding it hard to believe that she is actually on the scaffold with her baby and the scarlet letter A.Chapter 3: The RecognitionHester looks over the crowd and is horrified to see an Indian with a disfigured man. The man has a conversation with a man in the crowd. From this he learns that the deformed man had grievous mishaps by sea and has since been a prisoner of Indians. He is in town now to try to be redeemed out of his captivity. The man in the crowd then explains that the woman being punished is Hester Prynne. She had been the wife of a learned man in England who was to move to Massachusetts. This man sent his wife ahead to take care of affairs after she left. Hester arrived in Boston and two years go by without word from her husband. He is considered lost at sea. Hester eventually gets lonely and has a child with an unknown man in the colony. This is why she is being punished today.Hester concentrates on the disfigured man and doesnt hear her name being called by John Wilson.Governor Bellingham- a gentleman advanced in years with hard experiences written on his face.John Wilson- the oldest clergyman of Boston, a great scholar, kind and genial spiritReverend Mr. Dimmesdale- a young clergyman, very striking aspect, white, lofty, and impending brow, large, brown, melancholy eyes, and a mouth which was apt to be tremulous, kept himself simple and childlikeDimmesdale had been chosen to give the childs unknown father a chance to confess. He asks Hester to...
