Still in the basis of Dimmesdale's home Chillingsworth is devoting his time
to finding out what ails his patient. Chillingsworth keeps questioning Dimmesdale
about his past probing for some secret that will shed a little light
on Dimmesdale's sickness. While Dimmesdale is away Chillingsworth would look for
herbs to use for homeopathic medications to try and cure him. One time
Dimmesdale questions what a blackened herb is that Chillingsworth uses and
Chillingsworth replies that he found it in a graveyard and it symbolizes the
buried sin of the deceased. Dimmesdale then looks out the window as he hears
Pearl throwing flowers at her mothers scarlet letter outside. Pearl notices both
men and grabs her mother stating that the black man already has Dimmesdale and
he wont get them too. 

Dimmesdale's home is the center of this chapter. Dimmesdale has come down with a
sickness that no one in town seems to know what it is.  Chillingsworth
trying to seem like a good person volunteers the idea that he should have a
doctor staying with him and immediately puts himself in that position. For the
time being the town thinks that this is a great idea. Until Dimmesdale began to
get sicker and Chillingsworth gained this devilish look in eye that
showed he had a great evil within him. Chillingsworth knows something about
Dimmesdale but what it is no one knows.

This chapter is also set in the governors hall. Hester and Pearl are in a
corridor looking around at the marvels and history of the
governors mansion, when Bellingham, Wilson, Chillingsworth, and Dimmesdale
walk in talking. They immediately notice Pearl and begin to tease and poke fun
at the innocent little child. As they make fun Bellingham notions that Hester is
in the room as well. They question her asking why should she be able to keep her
child. Hester says that she can teach Pearl an important lesson learned in her
shame. They are obviously skeptical, so she turns to Dimmesdale for help. He is
able to convince them to let her keep Pearl because she symbolizes Hester's
blessings as well as her curse. Chillingsworth objects showing his mean side as
he pleads for them to investigate who fathered Pearl again.

We hear rumors of Pearl being taken from Hester for either of two reasons. One
Pearl is thought to be a demon child because of the sinful way she was conceived
and needs to be taken to protect Hester, two at the possibility that Pearl is a
human child the town feels she should be given to better parents then Hester.
The governors Hall is the place of all the commotion in this chapter.
Hester and little Pearl now at age three are on a journey to the governors hall
to deliver some ornate gloves and put Hester's mind at ease by questioning
Governor Bellingham about Pearl being taken from her.

In this chapter the mystery of the baby's name is pushed aside as we find out
she is to be known as Pearl.  Hester considers Pearl her
only consolation for her great sin. Pearl is described as an elfish
imp, an outcast, and sort of a loner like her mother. Pearl is a curious yet
defiant little girl and Hester worries about her all the time. This shows that
Hester has that compassionate motherly love that young children need to prosper
because Hester cares and worries for little Pearl all the time. Pearl always has
that curious air around her, she is always playing imaginary friends she makes
around their home. She also likes to mess with her mother scarlet letter which
torments Hester because she still feels pain as the letter is prodded by her
ever curious daughter.

A few months have passed within this chapter and Hester is finally released from
prison. She is given the choice to leave town but refuses for an unknown reason,
so her and the baby move into an abandoned shack on the outskirts of town. It is
there that Hester begins her work as a seamstress. Hester's work is considered a
fashion that goes against Puritan beliefs but it is in great demand to be used
as burial shrouds and other things. It is even deemed worthy enough for Governor
Bellingham to wear on occasions because of its skillful designs
and craftsmanship. Hester also does a lot of charity work. She's just
looking for a friend or someone to talk to just so she can easy her loneliness
to some extent.

This chapter is where Hester and her husband which we now know is addressed as
Roger Chillingworth come face to face for the first time. They meet within
Hester's jail cell when he is called to administer medical aid to Hester and the
baby. During this Roger also questioned her on subject of the man who fathered
her child. When she refused to answer him as well he vowed to find out, so he
could exact his revenge. In this chapter we really saw another side of Roger, we
saw that he is a devious man with a stone heart. Hester also appeared faithful
and honest as she kept her word.

This chapter is where Hester arrives at the scaffold and immediately sees a
man dressed in a mixture of English and Native American clothing. She recognizes
him as her husband. Hester's husband motions for Hester not to reveal his
identity, which shows he has a secretive side since he wants to remain anonymous
among the towns people. We are also introduced to Reverend Dimmesdale a
charismatic, passionate, yet shy young man. Governor Bellingham is also thrown
into the fray of these newly introduced characters. He is
a powerful educated man of high statue. During Hester's time on the
scaffold she is questioned about the identity of the man who fathered her baby.
Hester then makes the statement that her child will know no earthly father but
will seek only a heavenly father.

The Market Place is like a prelude to the next chapter. The Market Place has
Hester start at the jail. This is the first time we are introdueced to
Hester Prynne and her newborn baby. This is also the first we hear of the
infamous Scarlet Letter. Hester, Baby Pearl, and the police man are
leaving the jailhouse and walking through the street towards the scaffold and
Hester's public humiliation. Hawthorne introduces Hester in the beginning a very
shy but sensible woman. We are also introduced to Mistress Hibbins a grumpy old
lady with a sly attitude and a slick tongue.  Hester's scarlet letter and
baby Pearl are the only symbols we see in this chapter and they both symbolized
Hester's adulterous past sins.

This chapter begins outside the county prison with
no reasonably significant events. This piece of the novel creates a
since of dread and despair with the diction that Hawthorne uses to describe the 
group of men with their uncivilized looks and dull coloration of the surroundings.
Through all these depressing images Hawthorne throws the reader a shimmering
beam of  light in the form of a rose bush. The rose bush is life within
this hollowed place that lived through the evil around it. Hawthorne used a tone
of such despair that he personified gloom and depression with each and every word. He
showed us that within Puritan times homes were thought to be built last and
that a cemetery needed to be implemented first along with a church.