Answer to the Scarlet Letter"Confess thy truth, and thou shalt have eternal rest." I believe this is the moral to be taught in this inspirational love novel, but at the same time a novel of great pain. The impossible becomes possible in The Scarlet Letter, a story set in the Puritan Times. In this response, I will provide my written reactions to different aspects of the novel: the characters, my likes and dislikes, my questions, and my opinion on the harsh Puritan lifestyle. Hester Prynne, Reverend Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth each suffered guilt in their own way in the novel The Scarlet Letter. At the beginning of the novel, Hester Prynne should not have suffered as she suffered alone on the gallows. She was forced to be interrogated by the city's high officials, while holding her little Pearl in her arms. To make matters worse, the child's father was part of that very group of officials. She was then sentenced to wear the scarlet letter "A", showing her guilt "outwardly". Unable to take it off, she was forced to show her guilt in the entire arrangement. However, Reverend Dimmesdale was suffering "internally", with a scarlet letter of his own engraved on his mind, and also on his chest. He felt as if he had betrayed God and beat himself frantically to prove his guilt. He often wondered whether his authority was true or not. Roger Chillingworth suffered less, because he only failed to reveal the secret he knew, the father of the child with whom Hester Prynne was forced to live. This small limitation on his life forced him to suffer “internally”. I had several likes and dislikes in the novel The Scarlet Letter. There were many things that needed to be judged to fit into the given categories, including; attitudes and character decisions. For example, the attitude shown by Reverend Dimmesdale struck me as rather unpleasant. There are more ways to resolve your guilt than whipping yourself in a closet. The only character whose attitude appealed to me was Pearl's. It proved that mistakes in a relationship often lead to bad situations. His malice and his connection to the devil are examples of just those situations. Character decisions played an equally important role. For example, I thought Hester's decision not to say who Pearl's father was on the scaffold was very brave, but it was wrong.