Do you remember the age when your parents would spell out words just so you couldn’t comprehend? You knew they were being discreet, but you wouldn’t dare say a thing because some things just weren’t for little ears to hear. However, in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, “The Scarlet Letter,” the parents do not worry about talking plainly in front of their children. With this knowledge, the children, with their innocence, do not mind voicing their parents’ opinions, and sometimes acting upon those opinions.
Hester’s infamy in the town spread and never disappeared. “She would become the general symbol at which the preacher and moralist might point, and in which they might vivify and embody their images of woman’s frailty and sinful passion.” (Hawthorne,