In Chapter nineteen, natural forces that convey truth are represented through physical appearance. When Hester removes the "A", she experiences natural changes, similar to when Pearl is playing in the woods by herself and is naturally attracted to the flowers of nature. Hester becomes youthful and happy and Pearl becomes a walking flower.
             Towards the beginning of the chapter, Hester rips the beautiful, gold-threaded, elaborately woven "A" from her chest. The beauty that the "A" once held is now gone and has transferred back over to Hester's originally, beautiful appearance. "There played around her mouth, and beamed out of her eyes, a radiant and tender smile, that seemed gushing from the very hear of womanhood. A crimson flush was glowing on her check, that had been long so pale. Her sex, her youth, and the whole richness of the beauty, came back from what the men call the irrevocable past, and clustered themselves, with her maiden hope, and a happiness before unknown, with in the magic circle of this hour" (Hawthorne 185-186). Following this, sunlight beams through the forest representing a burden that is now lifted. Hester if full of life and that is emphasized by the sunlight. While Hester and Dimmesdale are discussing their plans to move to Europe, Pearl is off playing in the woods. "Pearl gathered the violets, and anemones, and columbines, and some twigs of the freshest green, which the old trees held down before her eyes"
             (Hawthorne 188). Throughout the story, Pearl has represented truth because of her natural instincts. By decorating her hair and waist with these natural creations, she is physically expressing where she is naturally led, which in this case is to the flowers.
             By the end of Chapter nineteen, the sun that once avoided Hester now follows her and the youth that was once drained from her is revitalized. Hester now represents life. Pearl dresses herself up in n...