Scarlet Letter, The

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The result, “The Scarlet Letter,” is one of the great early American novels, and, if it should be any consolation to Hawthorne’s Puritan ancestors, I remember the story of “The Scarlet Letter,” the hypocrisy and misogyny of Dimmesdale, the great strength and integrity of Hester, and the compassion of its narrator much better than anything I learned on that trip.

From The Wall Street Journal

When Leiby mentioned the Scarlet A, I thought of Suzan-Lori Parks’s take on “The Scarlet Letter” — the one of her Red Letter Plays whose title we can’t print here — with its heroine, Hester Smith, who is described in the list of characters as “the Abortionist.”

From New York Times

"But in a small town, in a small jurisdiction -- and I don't know that this is the case -- then that could be the scarlet letter, the stigma. I will never go to that lawyer," he concluded.

From Fox News

The questions asked on early IQ tests—about the author of The Scarlet Letter, the diet of squirrels, and the city where the Declaration of Independence was signed—required background knowledge.

From Slate

Not that it was about him; it was about those far less fortunate than him, who would carry this scarlet letter the rest of their lives.

From New York Times