Dimmesdale: The Bearer of the Scarlet letter Who should bear the stigma of sin? ... Hester cannot hide the consequences of her mistake, so she is exposed to public judgment and forced to wear the scarlet letter. ... Chillingworth had suspected Dimmesdale of being Pearl's father for a long time but he knows it for sure at the end of chapter 10, when he finds the minister fallen asleep in his room and sees the scratch on the form of the letter A. ... They were degraded by everybody, starting at a young age children wer...

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck all have social problem involving the main character. ... In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, the issue of sexism comes up. ... Her punishment for her crime was to spend a few hours on the scaffold to face public humiliation, and she was forced to wear the letter "A" on her clothes for the rest of her life. ... In the novel The Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale was not publicly punished for his crime while Hester was. ...

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