[ SECRET POST #2689 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2689 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

08. http://i57.tinypic.com/2mr5x1i.jpg

[silverr]

To clarify - "the reverend" in The Scarlet Letter being the father of Hester's baby?

[evewithanapple]

I thought the Reverend was Hester's husband?

[diet_poison]

If he had been, the entire book wouldn't have happened.

I'm pretty sure Silverr has the right of this. (We never actually see her husband.)

[serafina20]

Her husband is Chillingsworth; he shows up at the beginning of the novel.

[silverr]

... and once he figures out the situation, spends the rest of the time time gleefully "treating" (i.e. tormenting) Dimsdale for nervous exhaustion or something. (Or at least that's what I remember from the PBS version.)

[diet_poison]

hm. don't remember him at all, but I'm sure you're right. I read The Scarlet Letter some 6+ years ago and thought it was boring, so...

[serafina20]

Well, he's one of the three main characters (not counting Pearl as a main character).

[(Anonymous)]

CHillingworth was her husband, but she was branded an adultress because as far as the townspeople know she was an "unwed single mother" ... and the father of her baby was, er Dimsdale? The town's priest, who had had a secret affair with her. he died because the guilt of Hester taking all the blame kinda ate him alive.

[evewithanapple]

Ohhh, that's why I was confused- for some reason I thought Dimmesdale was the husband/minister.

[purityandlight]

And here I was having just picked up the Dark Tower series again with intent to finish. :( I mean, I still AM, but bluh. Eddie's my favorite so far. This hurts in my soul-place.

[ninety6tears]

I got spoiled for that too :( Though I'm sort of resigned by now to expecting Stephen King to kill off my faves.

[(Anonymous)]

So sorry about the spoilers, man, I didn't realize that :/

[(Anonymous)]

This was the OP, btw. Again, sorry about the spoilers, I thought I'd use something not completely new and came up with a book from 1850 and a series that King finished in the 2000's. Which was stupid.

[galerian-ash.livejournal.com]

I do think that's a bit strange -- I mean, you originally picked up the book because the plot sounded interesting, right? You didn't know about the characters then, so you couldn't have started reading the book for their sake. I understand being disappointed and getting discouraged when your favorite dies, but I would think you should still want to finish the book. Especially since you still care enough to write meta and lie about having read it.

But hey, whatever floats your boat!

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I haven't finished the Dark Tower series yet, so well that tidbit took me by surprise. Eddie was always one of my favourites too OP and well I can totally understand why you feel that way about reading on after a favored characters death.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry about the spoilers! :(

[mautradutor]

For some reason, this secret makes me feel very sad.

[(Anonymous)]

You rooted for DIMMSDALE?!?!? Dimmesdale who's like the biggest prick in literary history?

Sorry, I just really hate that guy.

[silverr]

Seconded. He was such a hypocritical wuss, it made me so mad.

(I'm suddenly all curious to read "reviews" of the book from Hawthorne's day (if there were such things.)

[(Anonymous)]

He was masturbating.

[(Anonymous)]

Part of me thinks you're a troll, OP, because I'm having a hard time imagining the same person fangirling the same way over both Dimmesdale and Eddie Dean. They're like polar opposites...

But if you're serious, and if you stopped reading Dark Tower immediately after Eddie's death... ohhhhhhhhh you picked the WRONG stopping place! I almost want to ask if you got to the Major Event that happened soon afterwards, because the aftermath of that is sort of a logical stopping point (and I think the book in question would have been better served split into two).

And if you somehow managed to write believable, coherent meta about the rest of the series after stopping EXACTLY at Eddie's death... then I salute you.

[(Anonymous)]

Read however you like, why not? But writing meta and acting like you know what you're talking about is dishonest and phoney.