The story The Scarlet Letter begins in seventeenth-century Boston, then a settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter “A” was placed on her breast. A man in the crowd tells an elderly onlooker that Hester is being punished for adultery.
Hester’s husband, a scholar who is much older than she is, sent her ahead to America, but he never arrived in Boston. The rumor was that he had been lost at sea. Little…
Words 393 - Pages 2
