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Alright, so I like most novels and short stories from Nathaniel Hawthorne, but I can't get too far into this boring piece of shit. Can anybody summarize The Scarlet Letter concisely and maybe help me figure out how to read this whole thing without feeling like an absolute fuckhead who'd rather play PC games?

>> No.4495991

That's a book read in high school. Without Googling it, I can already tell you that there is more than enough information about it covered in Sparknotes and Cliffnotes. Go crazy.

>> No.4495993

Pearl is the minister's bastard love child.

And political appointees at the Custom House are a bunch of lazy incompetent fucks.

>> No.4496003

As I recall it, having read it in middle school:
Hester Prynne is persecuted for having an illegitimate child.
Chillingworth suspects that Dimsdale is the father.
Chillingworth tries to find proof of this for literally decades, but fails.
At the end, someone dies. Either Hester or Dimsdale. I think.

>> No.4496006

>>4495991
I've made a few starts at it since grade school, but I never finished it. I think I'm going to give it another go and read it in one sitting after I take a 30mg Adderall.

>>4495993
Thanks. This is the post I was looking for. You have been helpful.

>> No.4496007

>>4496003
OP here. Thanks. I am blessed.