The Scarlet Letter There are many things that could be said about the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, “The Scarlet Letter.” The fact that Hester can see the devil in her own daughter’s eyes, and the way that Dimmesdale torments himself nightly with tools of pain. It is like an almost incurable disease that rips apart at their lives. I think that the focus of this book is, Guilt can rip apart your life. Hester is a woman who under the pressures of guilt has started to see bad things in everyone. Hester was looking into her daughter’s eyes, looking for herself, but instead she sees the Black Man. What does this say about what she is th....

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