Wednesday, 22 July 2015

What does Hester look like as she "issues out of the prison"? The appearance of Hester when she is summoned out of prison.

In
Chapter II of the reader finally meetsand sees who the town has gathered
to watch.  After much speculation, it is expected that young Hester will emerge from the jail
defeated or at least embarrassed, but this is not the woman we see.


And never had Hester Prynne appeared more lady-like, in the antiqueinterpretation of
the term, than as she issued from the prison. Thosewho had before known her, and had expected to
behold her dimmed andobscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, and even startled,
toperceive how her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she
was enveloped.

Those the came to see Hester looking sad
or...

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