36.)“Do I feel joy again?” cried he, wondering at himself. “Methought the germ of it was dead in me! O Hester, thou art my better angel! I seem to have flung myself—sick, sin-stained, and sorrow-blackened—down upon these forest-leaves, and to have risen up all made anew, and with new powers to glorify Him that hath been merciful! This is already the better life! Why did we not find it sooner?”
Being with Hester, seems to completely heel Dimmesdale. When he is with his little family he admitting his sin, not to other people but to himself. Peal and Hester is not what makes him sick, what makes him sick is hiding things from everyone. I think that this entire sin has from adulterating to a complete lie which back then was just as bad sometimes even worse. Everyday that he hides things his condition gets worse. But Hester and pearl are like his medicine, when he is being truthful and feels happiness his condition suddenly gets better.
Anna - slow down. Your grammar mistakes are taking over. Write slowly and deliberately.
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