Most of the story takes place while the child is still very young, though, as Hester’s true husband arrives in town, swears her to secrecy regarding his identity and begins tormenting the guilty man whom he’s already identified. The story begins following the child’s birth and her mother’s incarceration period and ends well after this child is grown up and the woman has returned to her old community. However, naming the father would mean bringing down the pillar of the community in the form of the minister, who has himself decided to remain silent.
The only way they will allow her to remove the letter is if she names the father of her child. As a punishment for her crime, the community determines that she should be doomed to always wear a scarlet letter A on her bodice to announce to all who see her that she is an adulteress. In the fictional novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne, the story is told of a young Puritan woman who finds herself pregnant with the minister’s child at a time when she is married to a man who has been missing for seven years.
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