[ 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

[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.