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The Scarlet Letter
By Nathaniel HawthorneIn the historical fiction novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne tells the legend of
the scarlet letter, a story of three Puritans' path toward penance for their sins. The story starts
with the main character, Hester Prynne, suffering a great ignominy before the entirety of Boston
after becoming pregnant with a child that was not her husband. Due to Hester moving to Boston
ahead of her husband, everyone thinks he is dead, so instead of being killed, she's forced to