Describe Hawthorne's use of irony in The Scarlet Letter and explain how those examples are ironic. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

The most
ironic part of The Scarlett Letter is thatremains throughout the story up
until the end as a respected, well-liked, admired, highly-followed, trendy, beloved, praised and
nearly-adored pastor whose following got bigger and bigger the more emacited, sick-looking, and
odd he became.

This is ironic because it is as if Hawthorne is laughing at
those die-hard church goers who see right in front of them that their shining light of a leader
is obviously going through some very odd and psychologically detrimental issues that are
beginning to show physically- and yet- that is precisely what their blindness leads them to
believe: That such bipolar exoticism, furor and decay are the product of such a Christian life
that he should be admired evermore. This, is the man that abandonedand lied to his flock right
on their faces while dying of guilt inside.