The Scarlet Letter--Nathaniel Hawthorne

I have posted before how I tended not to read the books that I was assigned to read in high school. The Scarlet Letter, however, I did read, but I didn't understand it. I have memories of reading the assigned pages, being rather confused, then getting to class to have Mrs. Nicholson tell me what I had read, and thinking, "that's not what I read." Luckily, I understood it this time around, and I'm very glad I gave it another try. On this read I realized that it is just a superb story, with the angry, craggy Roger Chillingworth, taking revenge on tortured Arthur Dimmesdale, and poor Hester Prynne faced daily with her indiscretion by the letter on her breast, and the child flitting about her, and none able to be happy because of repressed puritan society. Good stuff.