. In "Another View of Hester," Hawthorne explains to the reader that the scarlet A has yet another layer of meaning, which is in fact another view of Hester. The very townspeople who once condemned her now believed her scarlet A to stand for her ability to create her beautiful needlework and for her unselfish assistance to the poor and sick. They now saw it as a "symbol of her calling. Such helpfulness was found in her--so much po
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