The Scarlet Letter contains three important scaffold scenes that develop the story by having each scene revolve around Hester, Pearl, and Dimmesdale. The first scaffold scene is when Heser receives her punishment in front of the whole community. The next scaffold scene starts with Dimmesdale confessing his sin at night and then Hester and Pearl join him. The last scaffold scene is when Dimmesdale dies on the scaffold. The three scaffold scenes provide basic structure for the book. The first scaffold scene is when Hester receives her punishment in front of the whole community. Hester is put on the platform in the middle of town because she committed adultery. Hester has a red A on her chest, the gossips disagree with the placement and say, “At the …show more content…
When Dimmesdale invites Hester and pearl onto the scaffold he says, “‘Come up hither, Hester, thou and Little Pearl,” sand the reverend Mr. Dimmesdale. “Ye have both been here before, but I was not with you. Come up hither once again, and we will stand all three other.”’ (Hawthorne 101). Dimmesdale felt guilty for not confessing his sin when Hester was going through her humiliation. He always felt the guilt in his heart but never seemed to make i right until the night he went to the scaffold and confessed. When Hester, Pearl, and Dimmesdale joined hands on the scaffold the book states,“We impute it, therefore, solely to the disease in his own eye and heat that the minister, looking upward to the zenith, beheld there the appearance of an immense letter, -the letter A-, marked out in the lines of dull red light.” (Hawthorne 103). When they joined hands they formed what seemed to be a red A appear in the sky. They are all apart of the sin that occurred and they all went through the journey together. The second scaffold scene begins with Dimmesdale confessing his sin and ending with all three embracing their