"She hath good skill at her needle, that's certain," remarked one of her female spectators; "but did ever a woman, before this brazen hussy, contrive such a way of showing it! Why, gossips, what is it but to laugh in the faces of our godly magistrates, and make a pride out of what they, worthy gentlemen, meant for a punishment?" (51) When Hester Prynne walked out of the prison, she was wearing the scarlet letter "A". The letter stood for the fact that Hester was an adulteress. While in prison she... read more
