What does Hester do with any spare money that she might have?ġ. What are they? What is one occasion for which Hester is never asked to make clothing?ģ.
Hawthorne mentions three main occasions for which the people of Boston made use of Hester’s’ sewing skill. What reasons does Hawthorne give for Hester’s remaining in Boston, where she is an outcast?. At the end of the chapter, Chillngworth say, “Not thy soul…No not thine!” Which words would he have emphasized as he said this? What do you think he means? What do you think Chillingworth means when her says of the father of her child “I shall read (the letter of infamy) on his heart”?Ĩ. Why does Chillingworth say that he seeks no vengeance against Hester?ħ. At what point are you certain that Chillingworth is Hester’s husband? Cite the passage that confirms your suspicions.Ħ. What promise does Chillingworsth exact from Hester?ĥ. Why does Hester at first resist Chillingworth’s attempts to give the baby medicine?Ĥ. What two kinds of experiences equip Chillingworth to be a physician?ģ. Where is Roger Chillingworth, the stranger of Chapter III, to lodge while the authorities work out his ransom with the Indians?Ģ. The Reverend Dimmesdale awaited the result of his appeal to Hester to reveal her lover’s name “leaning over the balcony, with his hand over his heart…” On hearing her refusal, he draws back “with a long respiration.” Why do you suppose he was holding his breath until he heard her answer? How would you describe what the young minister is probably feeling at this moment?ġ. How does the Reverend Wilson interrupt the baby’s response to Dimmesdale’s entreaty? What significance do you think the baby’s response may have?. In what way, according to the Reverend Dimmesdale, can Hester help her unknown lover atone for his sin?. How important so you think this vow of his will be in the rest of the novel? After hearing of Hester’s crime and punishment, the stranger vows that her lover’s identity will be known. What clues to the identity of the stranger does Hawthorne provide in the first three paragraphs of Chapter III?. What seems to particularly disturb the stranger after he has learned of the sentences imposed on Hester?. 
What was the severest possible penalty for adultery in the Massachusetts Colony? How long does Hester have to stand on the scaffold? How long must she wear the scarlet letter? The townsman tells the stranger that the judges have bee lenient with Hester because of her youth and because she is probably a widow.What explanation does the stranger make to the townsman he speaks with that accounts for his combination of “civilized and savage costume?.The stranger who appears at the outskirts of the crowd while Hester stands on the scaffold is slightly deformed, in what way?.Do you agree that scornful mockery would be crueler than the attitudes Hawthorne describes here? Hawthorne says the Puritan townspeople were” stern enough to look upon her heartless enough to mock and ridicule her.What does this glimpse of her pas suggest about her family background? Hester thinks of her childhood home as she stands on the scaffold.Do you agree that the harshest aspect of punishment by pillory was that it prevented the confined person from hiding his or her face?.How so most of the townspeople regard Hester’s punishment – as too severe, too lenient, or too appropriate?.What conclusion can you draw from the fact that every new colony must provide a prison and a cemetery at once?.What is the significance of the scarlet letter A whish is embroidered on Hester’s gown?.What kind of spectacle have the townspeople of Boston gathered to witness?.
Under whose footsteps was the rose-bush outside the prison supposed to have sprung up?.What two necessities, according to Hawthorne, must the founders of a new colony provide immediately?.
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