The way a person is seen in public is not always the way they act in private as seen in the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne by the deceiving public opinions of both Hester Prynne and Dimmesdale and again in the Tina Fey movie Mean Girls through Regina George’s well kept secrets as well as Cady Heron’s double life. In the novel The Scarlet Letter the protagonist Hester Prynne has cheated on her husband while he is away and becomes pregnant. The public views Hester Prynne as impure and as a sinner because of this deed she has done but behind closed doors she is “characterized by a certain state of dignity…[with] the manner of a certain feminine gentility,” (Hawthorne 49). Hester’s public image is tainted when rumors surrounding
