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297 The Scarlet Letter

The History of Literature

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Hester Prynne's View of Memory

The scaffold of the pillory was a point of view that revealed to Hester Prynne the entire track along which she had been treading since her happy infancy. Standing on that miserable eminence, she saw again her native village in Old England,. Her paternal home, a decayed house of grey stone with a poverty-stricken aspect. Next rose before her, in memory's picture gallery, the intricate and narrow thoroughfares, the tall grey houses, the huge cathedrals. Lastly, in lieu of these shifting scenes came back the rude marketplace of the Puritan settlement; all the townspeople assembled and leveling their stern regards at Hesters Prynne who stood

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