At the beginning of Chapter VI, which introduces her and bears her name,is described as
a lovely and immortal flower sprung from a guilty passion. She makes a practice of gathering
flowers and even plays a game which involves throwing them atand trying to hit the scarlet
letter.
At the end of Chapter VII, Pearl points to the image of the two of
them in a convex mirror in the governors mansion. The mirror makes the scarlet letter loom
unnaturally large and Hester seeks to distract Pearl by taking her out into the garden, saying
that they may see more beautiful flowers there than the ones they find in the woods. There are
not many, as the garden is mainly given over to vegetables, but they do see a few rose bushes,
and Pearl cries for a red rose.
When Hester will not let her have the rose,
as she hears people approaching, Pearl gives an eldritch scream. Her crying for the rose is a
simple, childish reaction and the fact that she stops a moment later of her own...
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