Hester, after leaving Chillingworth, is very bitter. She admits to herself the depth of her hate for him. He had taken her, very young, into marriage despite the lack of love in her and, in this way, courted disaster. Still in the woods, her madcap child plays with the snail-shells and horseshoes and jellyfish, finally making for herself a letter A out of some eelgrass and placing it on herself.
Pearl wants to know what it means......
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