One thing that stuck out for me from this portion of the book was on page forty-one where is talked about sin being dragged out into the sunshine. There is an increasing exposure to sin between both Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale. Hester Prynne accepts her sin while Dimmesdale continues to say, not me! Hester is feeling a lonely and isolated with no one but her daughter for company. She is in a sense the scapegoat for the entire town sins. There is also an evident connection between pearl and the letter A because of her birth and immediate attraction to the letter.
There are also many connections with Anne Hutchinson in this section of the novel. One is of course, the rosebush, but also Hester is in similar footsteps. In Chapter 3: The Recognition, Hester will not tell who the father is. She says the child will have a heavenly father, not an earthly one. This make Hester look very brave to stand up to this alone. Her exposure for her sin does not cause her to give up who the father is. Although it would allow him to be punished as she was there is no need to expose him to the consequences that she has been exposed to.
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