The Prophecy of Hester Prynne

The voice is that of a reflective man of letters who doubts his own relation to society and its sources of power as well as the power of his imagination to render truth. This invisible person will tell Hester's story, but he is also Hester herself. And I think also his mom died like right before this book came out. He's just somebody who was feeling like pretty alienated. You know, he's a he's a romantic writer, a psychological realist, not a social realist. There's some stuff in this book that I think, asI recall, gets a little in depth. It's not just like, here's a story about a person that lived, right