Many think of the scarlet letter as a letter of sin and regret. But hester eventually owned up to the letter and it became a part of her. It is hard to explain, but you will understand as we go on through the story. The scarlet letter describes what hester has done wrong and they want everyone to know. The letter describes her and she embarrassed the letter. In the scarlet letter, we see how everything falls into place. Hester comes out of the prison and stands on the scaffold in the middle of the town in front of everyone holding her child and wearing a shirt with the letter “A” printed on the shirt, standing for adultery. "Not a stitch in that embroidered letter, but she has felt it in her heart”(*Fitzgerald 46). The scarlet letter is a sign of adultery and in this time period it was very frowned upon. Hester …show more content…
“such helpfulness was found in her-so much power to do, and power to sympathize-that many people refused to interpret the scarlet letter A by its original signification. They said that it meant Able; so strong was Hester Prynne, with a women’s strength” (Renner 152). Hester is not the only one that as changed because of the letter. The community looks at her as a new woman who is able and she raised her child and stayed pure, the community looks at her a role model. Hester has to wear the scarlet letter A and be put up on the scaffold for public ridicule. Hester decides to move away from the community so she moves to a small cottage on the outskirts of town. She is able to see all the sin that other people have committed. Hester sees Dimmsdale at the scaffold and they go to stand on the scaffold together with Pearl. In the second scaffold scene, the community sees the scarlet A in the sky as a sign that the Governor has become an angel. (Coale). They all embraced the letter and it brought them closer together. The letter has actually made her life better in a