The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is a novel, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The novel takes place in Massachusetts Colony, located in Boston. Its main characters are Hester Prynne, a woman convicted of adultery; Arthur Dimmesdale, a minister of the community; Roger Chillingworth, a physician, he was also Hester's husband, and Pearl, Hester's daughter. This book is about a woman named Hester Prynne, that was convicted and sentenced to go to jail for committing adultery. At …showed first 75 words of 590 total…

…showed last 75 words of 590 total…admitted to be the father of Pearl, after time of agony he died and Hester ran away with her daughter. Years later she returned alone to live where she had been accused of adultery. Now that she came back she wasn't ashamed of wearing the Scarlet letter it had become an emblem of her tender mercy and kindness. At her death she directed that the only inscription or her tombstone should be the letter A