The Scarlet Letter is structured around three main scaffold scenes and the characters involved in them. As we look at these three scaffold scenes we will se how the main characters of the story change in image and in personality. These three scaffold scenes all take place in the middle of town in the market place. The book starts off with the fist scaffold scene, where Hester Prynne leaves the prison to stand on the …showed first 75 words of 618 total…

…showed last 75 words of 618 total…him one. In the past she would have never shown her affection to him. Nathaniel Hawthorne brilliantly designed this book around these three Scaffold scenes. As we look at the changes that the characters endure threw out the story we fin our selves sympathizing for Hester and Dimmesdale even though they have sinned. This is because when we look at what Chillingworth has done fare worse damage than anything that Hester and Dimmesdale had done.