The Scarlet Letter is a unified, masterfully written novel. It is structured around three crucial scaffold scenes and three major characters that are all related. The story is about Hester Prynne, who is given a scarlet letter to wear as a symbol of her adultery. Her life is closely tied to two men, Roger Chillingworth, her husband, and Arthur Dimmesdale, her minister and the father of her child. Her husband is an old, misshapen man …showed first 75 words of 581 total…

…showed last 75 words of 581 total…is done in the cover of darkness with no witnesses, except for the evil Chillingworth, who now has his proof that Dimmesdale is Pearl's father. The third and final scaffold scene occurs at the end of the novel. Dimmesdale climbs the scaffold again with Hester and Pearl at his side. This time it is in the light of day and before a crowd, and he publicly confesses his sin. He has won his personal victory.