"Her handiwork became what would now be termed the fashion"
Hester is great at making cloths and making them beautiful or pretty. She can not how ever make them for weddings because not all things are pure. As it says "But it is not recorded that, in a single instance, her skill was called in aid to embroider the white veil which was to cover the pure blushes of a bride. The exception indicated the ever relentless vigor with which society frowned upon her sin." The puritans also hate Hester herself but as it also says "The young woman... marked brow and deep black eyes." Another beautiful thing they hate is Pearl as it describes her as "A lovely and immortal flower" everything that has been described as beautiful or pretty has something bad about them like Pearl is a devil child and Hester is an adulteress
"It says"? Jake what is it?
ReplyDeletePearl is described as "a lovely and immortal flower" relates back to the rose bush by the prison door. Why? What is the narrator trying to suggest here? Note - the society thinks "something bad" about Pearl and Hester but the narrator does not. Make sure you don't confuse the narrator with the society. They are different.