The Scarlet Letter

In the book "The Scarlet Letter", I had many opinions about it. For the most part I liked it. It was a very mysterious book to me. You had no idea who was actually the real father of Pearl Prynne, or who was Hester Pryennes lover was throughout the book. That is what kept me interested and kept me reading. I also really liked how there was so many different types of symbolic personifications like legalism, sin, and guilt. With all the variances of symbolism you could really make your own opinions about the book, which I really liked. The only really downfall for me was some of the metaphors Nathaniel Hawthorne used to describe his book. They had me confused at times, but once you figure them out it, you understand the novel more.

The main characters in this book all had very different personalities. I was really fond of Hester Prynne. She was such a positive, protagonist person throughout this book, even though everyone thought badly upon her. She knows she made a mistake but doesn't regret it. She loves her daughter Pearl and takes good care of her. Hester also doesn't want to get anyone else involved with her affair entanglement, for that she does not source who her lover was. I also really like Hester's daughter Pearl. She is a very intelligent little girl. She is also much more mature for her age. Pearl is able to perceive things that others are not. The two people I feel bad for are; Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and Doctor Roger Chillingworth. Arthur ends up getting very ill in the book because of shame and remorse, secretly he wants to come out that he is Hester's lover but is afraid of what will happen to him. So instead he just hurts himself physically and emotionally. I also pity, Hester's old husband Roger Chillingworth. He is so hurt and damaged from Hester's mistake that he turns into a monstrous human being. He is the most malevolent character in the book because he is so agonized.

"The Scarlet Letter", was one of my favorite books I have read so far out of all the summer reading novels. It lost in a close tie against "The Great Gatsby". Both books were similar to eachother, they were both about love, and pain. Both books achieved the detailing facts about what loss can do to you. Full of secrets, deception, and affairs. One of the differences about the books was how Gatsby was in love with Daisy, he tried to win her back by showing off his wealth to her. Roger Chillingworth was also in the same position Gatsby was, but instead of trying to win his lover back, he did the opposite. He wanted to get revenge, by that he turned into an awful malvolent character. That was one big difference in the book, others were the time line and how different the outcome of affairs were. In " The Scarlet Letter" it was a huge deal if you had an affair with another person, it ended up you get scorn from everyone and a huge 'A' tattooed on your chest. While in "The Great Gatsby", it was hardly anything. As long as they had money, it didnt matter if you had affairs or not. The only thing that mattered to them was their reputation of them and they're wealth. All in all I really enjoyed both books.