Chap.19 DJ

39.)Symbol: Pearl

There are many different representations of Pearl. She is an angel, a nymph, and bird, Hester and Dimmesdale sin, and to the Puritan society a demon creature. I think that her main role in this story is to guide the characters to the truth. She is best symbolized as the Angel of Judgment, for instance she wants Dimmesdale to claim them in front of the whole town, and when he says he will not she pulls away from him or wipes of a kiss that he gives her. She is trying to guide him to what is right, hiding there sin will not make it disappear, they will just be pretending it's not there but in the back of there minds Dimmesdale and Hester will always know its still there. Pearl is a child which make people think she doesn't understand but children are innocent, a quality that adults begin to lose as they get older. Her innocence can guide these two into heaven.