42.)"Seen in the brook, once more, was the shadowy wrath of Pearl’s image, crowned and girdled with flowers, but stamping its foot, wildly gesticulating, and, in the midst of all, still pointing its small forefinger at Hester’s bosom!"
She has grown up with her mothers A on her chest. To everyone else the A means adulterer but to Pearl is completes her mother. She is not the same without the A on her chest. This goes back to how getting rid of the A will not delete the sin it will just hide it even more. Pearl is so influenced by the A that she even has created an A out of greens to make her own A. She is the root of her mothers symbolism of the rose bush. Her A is green and has not fully bloomed into the violet flower like her mothers A has. Every rose has its thorns, Hesters thorns are her sins, but the thorns don't take away from the true beauty of the flower. just like the sin doesn't take away from the true inner beauty of Hester. Pearl is young, as she gets older she will make mistakes but now she has no thorns she is just a budding flower who will eventually grow into a full rose bush. If her mother takes off her A, and hides thing that might mean that in the future Pearl will hide things. She will learn to hide her sins instead of confronting them.
Anna, catch yourself when you start to wander. Remember stick with analysis the quote. The quote here deals with Pearl pointing at Hester's bosom after Hester has taken off the "A". She's throwing a fit, scaring the minister. Why? What does this say about Pearl. What does she see both with her mother's of the "A" and her mother with Dimmesdale. The are two levels here (perhaps more) 1) The symbolic, and 2) The actual.
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