The Scarlet Letter: resumo de Chapter 17

O que acontece

1. Hester Prynne stops Arthur Dimmesdale in the woods, where they cautiously begin discussing their suffering.
2. Dimmesdale says public admiration deepens his misery because it contradicts his hidden guilt.
3. Hester reveals that Roger Chillingworth is her husband and uses his position as physician to torment Dimmesdale.
4. Dimmesdale initially blames Hester, then forgives her and condemns Chillingworth’s deliberate revenge.
5. Hester urges Dimmesdale to escape through the wilderness or across the sea and begin a different life.
6. When Dimmesdale insists he lacks the strength to leave alone, Hester assures him he need not.

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O que observar

Hester answers the obstacle Dimmesdale names most strongly: his inability to leave alone. Her assurance turns an argument about escape into an offer of shared action.

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