the scarlet letter, symbol 14

Chapter 6


When Pearl grew older Hester notice that Pearl is a special child.  She is not like everyone else “Thou art not my child! Thou art no Pearl of mine!.....Your heavenly Father sent you!” I also think that Hester doesn't want Pearl to know what really happened, why she doesn't have a father.  So she tries to tell her the same story every parents does when their kids are young, that someone sent her. It's obviously that she doesn't want her child to know why she doesn't have a father, why her life is not like other children's lives. Pearl is the symbol of Hester's sin, and she doesn't want Pearl to know that, she doesn't want her child to suffer.