In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne utilizes a distinct style in his writing to influence his readers’ impressions of his characters and attempts to provoke an emotional connection from reader to character. Hawthorne uses many types of literary styles in his writing to get the emotional connection he wants from the reader, including figurative language, high diction, and hedging, or the use of equivocal language. Hawthorne uses figurative language in attempt to compare his characters to something that is more relatable. On page 134 he says, “The aged members of his flock, beholding Mr. Dimmesdale’s frame…” Here Hawthorne uses a metaphor to compare Mr. Dimmesdale’s parishioners to a sheppard and his flock. One can read this statement