“A letter - the letter A - but freshly green instead of scarlet. The child bent her chin upon her breast, and contemplated this device with strange interest, even as if the one only thing for which she had been sent into the world was to make out its hidden import.”
Pearl, enjoying playing with seaweeds, makes on her bosom the letter A, like her mother’s one. But the green A of Pearl is completely different from the scarlet A of Hester. Green is the color of the childhood, of the naivety while red is the color of the love, the passion love and of the fault. On the other hand Pearl, growing up, is getting more curious about the meaning of that symbol her mother has. She asks herself something before she has never thought to ask: what does the scarlet letter means?
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