DJ 14

So, we know all about Hester. Her sin is shown everyday and there is nothing she can do about it. What is shown is Pearl. Pearl is the light of her life. Pearl keeps her happy and keeps her mentally strong. Dimmesdale's sin is unconfessed, and he won't do anything about it (so far). What he hides, Chillingworth finds. The 'A' on his chest. Chillingworth can now torture Dimmesdale and keep him gloomy and mentally weak. Chillingworth is Dimmesdale's Pearl. (I wish I could draw a picture here...I'll try to)

Hester-
Mentally strong

Dimmesdale-
mentally weak

Pearl-
brings Hester joy and goodness

Chillingworth-
brings Dimmesdale sorrow and badness

Hester balances Dimmesdale, while Pearl balances Chillingworth. It goes together, and it just so happens that the women are mentally strong, bring goodness, and are succeeding while the men are mentally weak, bring sorrow, and live hard, failing lives. Now why would Hawthorne do this? Is he suggesting that girls are better then men? Or, could he be saying that men have it harder than women? Who knows? Maybe he thinks men are more mentally strong. These men are in the tough, maybe evil, predicaments they are in because they want to do whatever it might take to keep the women happy. They are dealing with themselves, and the women and children. They are the providers, even in their own sorrow, do they provide. Boys are better...