Hester Prynne was trying to be accepting and somewhat proud of what she had done, her dress and letter were so beautiful that she seemed proud to wear the A. While in prison hester had made a dress and had stitched a letter into her dress. “Her attire, which indeed, she had wrought for the occasion in prison, and had modelled much after her own fancy, seemed to express the attitude of her spirit, the desperate recklessness of her mood, by its wild and picturesque peculiarity.”
Although in the movie she looked nervous and kind of scared to be walking through the marketplace. Her eyes were kind of empty looking and she had a panicked expression, she moved nervously and walked sort of jumpy. Her eyes jumped around looking back and forth between people and areas and she is
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She still is the same person in the movie and novel both but they are still quite different, and these differences makes the reader’s opinion change. When watching the movie the viewer feels like hester made efforts to stay faithful and not cheat on her husband but the book portrays her as someone who just doesn’t care, she showed little shame about cheating on her husband and she seemed proud to keep her lover secret. She just wanted to keep her secret lover safe and she really wanted to be with him. So your overall attitude of the novel changes by the way they change Hester prynne, there are other changes in the book but they don 't affect your experience as much as Hester 's changes do. The changes from the book and the movie make a difference in your interpretation of the novel overall. It kind of makes you wonder what the book would 've been like if these changes had been opposite and the Hester in the movie was actually the Hester in the book and they just reversed roles. Throughout the novel and the book both versions change drastically and alter your perception of how she would act if it was real