The Scarlet Letter

Difficulty Paper

     What I found difficult from reading The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, What I found most difficult was not having enough time personally to read it completely with out having to use spark notes. My last resort was to read spark notes to finish half of what I had actually read, I also found it difficult to follow the story, I loved when I started to read and I was intrigued by the exciting things that were about to happen to dear Pearl and her mother, Hester Prynne. I thought they might both be sentenced to death and be burned by the steak, but has I read on it was not what I had thought. This story was about love in every sense, about Hester’s affair and the child she had from this affair. I was expecting her to be not just a single mother of a fatherless child, but it was a child from her affair not her husband, who seemed to be stalking her, and plotting against her the whole time.

     The story was about love, a mothers love for her child and a child’s love for her mother, but the love of a man who saw Prynne for who she was and not for what she had done, it took both of them to admit to their sin of having an affair and having a child as well. I wanted the first story to not end, I read other short stories from other views and almost got lost but then soon realized that it was parts to a story but more like a play, with wild and strange language of the sixteenth century setting up the rise and fall of the plot and the whole story.
      I can relate to Hester Prynne in many ways, feeling like an outcast from her community, seemingly trying to fit in but marked for life. This analysis of her character is what I would like to use as my research paper for class, I originally wanted to do the content of the story but re examined my options and choose Prynne due to our similarities in being a single mom and feeling like an outcast in our own communities. I will be looking forward to researching on single moms in my research paper, and comparing her life to theirs, I would also like to examine what makes signal mothers more likely to suffer from post traumatic stress after having a child.