Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Journal 32 Chapter 16 pg163

"...he has his hand over his heart! Is it because, when the minister wrote his name in the book, the Black man set his mark in that place?  But why does he not wear it outside his bosom, as thou dost, mother?" (163)

Pearl is asking Hester why hasn't Dimmesdale revealed his sin like her mother has. 

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