Scarlet Letter
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Chapter: I "The Prison Door"
P: People are waiting outside the edifice (jail).
Q: "The founders of a new colony have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison."
S: The rose symbolizes a sweet message in a dark story.
T: People will always do wrong and will always die.
Chapter: II "The Market Place"
P: Hester Prynne has to walk through the crowd and stand on the scaffold wearing her scarlet letter A.
C: Hester is a tall, attractive woman. She has dark glossy hair and dark eyes. She is poised and dignified. Her clothes, which she has sewn, are very beautiful. Even the letter A is beautifully embroided...