I'm reading the novel by nathaniel hawthorne. There seems to be a lot going on in the scaffold scenes that i kind of not understand. Can someone explain the significance of these scenes? I am not a fan of cliffnotes or sparknotes because i actually READ the books. please someone who has read it tell me, i appreciate it.
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do you mean the part where she's on the scaffold with pearl when she's just born or when the three of them hold hands and then the priest has to leave? Well either way, the scaffold means embarrassment, it's like having to wear the A but being more upfront with people so you don't really have to explain yourself, everyone just knows. That's the reason, i forget his name, the priest that's pearl's father, goes up to the scaffold, because no one knows he secretly wears the A that's why going on the scaffold allows him to free himself of guilt, he wanted everyone to know so he would stop living in hidden pain but when pearl and her mother come, it makes it too real for him, he kind of wakes up, you could say, so he becomes too frightened and decides not to carry out his plan.
