The Scarlet Letter

            In the novel The Scarlet Letter, one of the main characters was the child named Pearl. Pearl was the living sin that Hester and Dimmsdale had committed. Through the novel Pearl was the one to move the plot along. At the beginning of the novel, Pearl’s first scene was when she was at the scaffold with her mother being ridiculed by the public. When Pearl is with her mother to meet Dimmsdale at the hiding place, she would not allow Hester to remove the scarlet letter “A” off her bosom, and did not want to kiss or hug Dimmsdale.

            Because of Pearl’s actions, the family was still struggling with the truth and could not move forward. The final scaffold scene was when Pearl and Hester were on the scaffold scene with Dimmsdale. At that point, Pearl embraces Dimmsdale and allowed him into his life. If   it were not for Pearl in the third scaffold scene, the family would have not become close, and that happy and peaceful mood would not have entered in the story. Nor would the story have a shocking commercial.

            The character of Pearl is more than just the living sin from Hester and Dimmsdale. Pearl is majorly important to the plot because she was the one that guided the relationship between Hester and Dimmsdale, and lead the plot of the novel. With out her, or even if she was just a child in the novel, the sequence and events would have not have much meaning or importance.