Characters physical and personality traits are portrayed on evidence in the text. In the novel The Scarlet Letter the character Pearl is portrayed as the young mischievous daughter of Hester Prynne. Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays Pearl's physical trait as a spitting image of her mother but also reveals the different personally side of Pearl.
Pearl was born into a town of her mother's sin. Pearl's mother paid a huge price to obtain her. Pearl was condemned to live a life as an outcast because of her mother's scarlet letter. As Pearl began to grow she became extremely eager to unwrap her mothe…