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An element which focalizing on is Bellingham house, especially how difference it is from Hester Pryne’s house.

“Then, however, there was the freshness of the passing year on its exterior, and the cheerfulness, gleaming forth from the sunny windows, of a human habitation, into which death had never entered. It had, indeed, a very cheery aspect, the walls being overspread with a kind of stucco, in which fragments of broken glass were plentifully intermixed; so that, when the sunshine fell aslant-wise over the front of the edifice, it glittered and sparkled as if diamonds had been flung against it by the double handful. The brilliancy might have be fitted Aladdin's palace rather than the mansion of a grave old Puritan ruler. It was further decorated with strange and seemingly cabalistic figures and diagrams, suitable to the quaint taste of the age which had been drawn in the stucco, when newly laid on, and had now grown hard and durable, for the admiration of after times.”

The house of the governor is placed in the center of the city, in the heart of the city, in direct contact with people. Its design so elaborate doesn’t represent the essential Puritan ideology but its function is to represent the magnificent of the man that lives inside there. It is very bright, that because it is the house of a very good man, the governor, who acts for the goodness of the people who live the city, a man who should be taken as an example and who represents the justice.

This building is completely different from Hester’s house, small, dark, decadent and placed out of the city. Indeed this building symbolizes more Hester fault and couldn’t rightly be beautiful.