The Scarlet Letter Why does Hawthorne provide Hester Prynne the term Hester? Hawthorne himself, as is well known, improved his friends and family name from Hathorne, to distance himself from those Puritan ancestors in whose achievements and excesses haunted his fictional works. The Scarlet Letter tells of Roger Prynnes reinvention of himself simply by an […]
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