The style of The Scarlet Letter is clean, precise, and effective. In the novel Hawthorne
utilizes all his writing skills. In doing this he includes a heroine. In The Scarlet Letter by
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne is a victim and a heroine that is admired because of
her strong will, and disregard for other's views of her.
She comes from an impoverished but genteel English family, having lived in a
"decayed house of gray stone, with a poverty-stricken aspect, but retaining a
half-obliterated shield of arms over the portal, in token of antique gentility." But even
without that spe…
