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Post by rebeccapl116 on Dec 12, 2012 21:30:08 GMT -5
Why does Hawthorne end the novel with Pearl settling down and getting married? As she grew up, Hester was so afraid of Pearl's fire and color but it seems Pear was not nearly as rebellious as her mother--she conformed. What message is he trying to get across? Who influenced Pearl's decisions to do so?
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Post by 14elesvik on Dec 13, 2012 17:45:27 GMT -5
Although the narrator likes Hester and Pearl (and he is omniscient...), Hester and Pearl do things that he does not approve. I think Pearl's ending is just more ambivalence. The narrator is ambivalent towards Hester, Chilllingworth (earlier though...), (possibly) Dimmesdale, and now Pearl.
Also, Dimmesdale's love "broke" Pearl's spell...
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