A Composer's Notes

The Scarlet Letter blog entry#2

While reading the next assigned section of "The Scarlet Letter" I was struck by how the towns people were viewing Hester at this point. It is interesting to me how the townspeople were no longer looking upon her and the Scarlet Letter as a detrament to the town but they were looking instead at the good works that she had been doing since her release from prison. "It is our Hester,- the town's own Hester,- who is so kind to the poor, so helpful to the sick, so comfortable to the afflicted!" I find it interesting that the townspeople had become so accustomed to seein the Scarlet "A" on her that they began to no longer see the letter, but were now looking past it to the person who was behind it.