The appellation of the scarlet letter was completely useless. It had no purpose, everyone had already knew and witnessed her ignominy up on the scaffold. Even if new settlers had arrived, I am assuming the women of the town would gossip about it filling them in. Hester still would have slowly became the brave woman they all perceived her as at the end of it, with or without the scarlet letter. There has been a time when I was ostracized because of a single act, a harmless one in fact. It was not seen as a sin of course but it did ruin my reputation like Hester‘s. I used to live with my grandmother whom was very lady-like and proper, which I am not. Basically, we had our differences and arguments. The deal was "apologize or leave". I, like Hester,