Arthur Dimmesdale is suppose to be this role model for the townspeople. If the townspeople found out about his sin of adultery, he would begin getting mocked and harassed like Hester. He begins to punish himself brutally for his sin by whipping himself, his health begins to deteriorate. When he is standing on the scaffold he sees a meteor that looks like the letter “A” for adultery, his guilt is eating at him. Roger Chillingworth is Hester’s husband, he can 't let his secret get out of his true identity. He is very worried that Hester will out his secret to the townspeople and rev. Dimmsdale. Chillingworth starts to try to find out who Pearl’s father really is and wants to seek revenge on the father. He is getting sketchy about reverend Dimmesdale