The town has made Hester into a “living sermon,” as Chillingworth puts it, because she is stripped of her humanity and made to serve the needs of the community. The Scarlet Letter · Chapters 5–6 · Roger Chillingworth · Pearl

Chillingworth asks a man about Hester's identity and crime. The man is surprised Chillingworth hasn't heard about Hester's notorious sin. Chillingworth lies ...

Summary Hester recognizes a small, rather deformed man standing on the outskirts of the crowd and clutches Pearl fiercely to her bosom. Meanwhile, the man ...

Chapter 3 of The Scarlet Letter opens with Hester's first sighting of the "stranger." Though she instantly recognizes him, she does not tell his identity. In ...

Summary. Hester glimpses an older, slightly crippled man at the back of the crowd. The man, a stranger to Boston, signals to Hester to ignore him.

The woman is Hester Prynne. She's married to an Englishman who's been missing for two years. READ THE BOOK: Chapter 3

Summary—Chapter 3: The Recognition. Hester sees her husband, until now presumed to be dead, in the crowd while she is at the scaffold.

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At his arrival in the market-place, and some time before she saw him, the stranger had bent his eyes on Hester Prynne. It was carelessly, at first, like a man ...

While on the scaffold, Hester notices a Native American in the crowd. Next to him is a small man, whom Hester recognizes as her husband, Mr. Prynne.