B. The Scarlet Letter is a significant title because it emphasizes the main symbol of the novel. The scarlet letter, a golden “A” embroidered on red fabric, that Hester Prynne is forced to wear is a mark of her crime that starts the novel and is a reminder that burdens her every day. The event that the token embodies is the entire focus of the novel and separates the central characters from the rest of Hawthorne’s town. The Scarlet Letter, titles the book after the event that alters the character’s lives in an unimaginable way. What isn’t realized until later in the novel is that Hester Prynne isn’t the only individual wearing the shameful mark. Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale also wears it as it destroys him from the inside out. Starting the title