The Scarlett Letter DJ

Chapter 2 pg.50

1.)"Those who had before known her, and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, and even startled to perceive how her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped."

The towns people are expecting to her look not at all the way she does. She is extremely beautiful and the way she is dressed is also extremely beautiful, and nobody understands, to them she is so unbelievably terrible for the wrong she committed. They think she is a whore, assuming that the standards of how a whore looks is pretty low so her unexpected beauty shows that she is not a whore in my opinion. She is genuine and and pure.