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Chapter 9


People wants Mr. Dimmesdale to move in with Roger Chillingworth because he is really sick, and Chillingworth is the "doctor". Mr. Dimmesdale says “I need no medicine." because if God wants him to die, he should die. I think that the reason Roger Chillingworth wants to move in with him is because he suspects that he is Pearl's father, and he easily can torture him with keeping him alive.