chapter 4 DJ 6

Hester has incredible resilience and willpower. She is talked down upon by the town. But no matter what she just keeps going on and on. She doesn't care what they say She just goes on and on day after day etc. She thinks what happened to her was just something in life and needs to get over it and forget about it. It says "she must sustain and carry it forward (to keep going on) by the ordinary resources of her nature (her life), or sink beneath it (to just stop or give up)."