The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a novel that takes place in a
Puritan community during the middle of the seventeenth century. The story is about a
woman named Hester Prynne who has an affair with a man by the name of Reverend
Arthur Dimmesdale. This occurred after her husband inexplicably failed to join her in
Boston after their emigration to American from Europe. Hester soon gives birth to a child, and is from then on condemned by her fellow townspeople. This condemnation
consists of the town forcing her to wear an "A" upon her bosom. Throughout the book
the lett…
