The quote: "I shall do better amongst other faces; and these familiar ones, it need hardly be said, will do just as well without me." This quote struck me, because it gives the narrator an image of an outcast, who is running away to another town. It seems like this, because "he shall do better amongst other faces," and the familiar faces will "do just as well without him." He wishes to win some importance in his townspeople's eyes, but he feels like an outsider on their little town. The little town is the abode and burial-place of so many of his forefathers. In yet, he feels like an outsider. (Pg. 48)
The event: "It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself." This event struck me, because it is describing the scarlet letter so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom. Hester Prynne had just walked out of the prison, and was acting very lady-like while holding her child. This event gives the effect of a beautiful woman of infamy. She had long brown hair, perfect skin, and modelled the attitude of her spirit. You can imagine a perfect woman charged with adultery, with an embroidered scarlet letter upon her bosom, forever to be. Forever to be looked down upon, to be gossiped of, and to be the example of evil every Sunday. (Pg. 56)
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