Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is a novel that describes the lives of people closely linked to Hester Prynne while she is living in seventeenth-century. The society in which she lives in and which her illegitimate daughter Pearl were born into, do not have a good reaction towards what Prynne did. Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth are a great part of Hester Prynne's problems in this book. They not only condemn her but the end leads to almost inevitable sorrow.

Arthur Dimmesdale is a reverend that comes into the town the Hester Prynne takes up residence in. She was sent there by her husband to prepare a spot for him to come to in America. While she was in America, she found a place and settled there. While she took up residence, she met Arthur Dimmesdale in the woods and the mystery of that scene shrouded them. Later...