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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Character Analyses

Hester Prynne:

Hester Prynne, Boston adultress, is first seen (in Chapter II) as she
comes from prison. The picture we have of her is almost as if it were in the
words of one of the spectators who explains what he saw to someone who had to
stay at home. The reporting spectator might say: "The young woman was tall,
with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale. She had dark and abundant
hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which,
besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness ...

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