The Scarlet Letter opens with a long introduction about how the book came to be. The narrator was an employee of a customhouse in Salem, Massachusetts. In the customhouse he discovered a number of papers scattered around the storehouse a manuscript was bundled with a scarlet fancily embroidered scrap of high quality cloth in the shape of an A. The manuscript was the work of a past citizen of the town. It detailed events that occurred around two hundred years before the writer's time. When he lost his customs post, he decided to write an interpretive account of the events detailed in the manuscript. The book, "The Scarlet Letter" was the final product.
The story begins in early Boston, which was then a Puritan settlement. The main character, a young woman named Hester Prynne is led from the town prison with her baby daughter Pearl in her arms and the scarlet letter on her clothes. A man in the crowd tells another important character that Hester is being punished for adultery. The......

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Title: (Short) Scarlet Letter Essay
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Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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