Chapter 12, 'The Minister's Vigil'
The minister reads the meteor as a sign of his guilt; townsfolk read it as 'Angel' for the dead Governor Winthrop — Hawthorne's famous multiple interpretation.
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From The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
During Dimmesdale's midnight vigil a meteor blazes an enormous A across the heavens — the novel's most discussed instance of cosmic symbolism and ambiguity.
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