Chapter 6, 'Pearl'
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Pearl as Living Letter
From The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pearl is less character than emblem — she enforces moral truth by demanding the letter remain, and her humanization at Dimmesdale's death completes the novel.
Chapter 19, 'The Child at the Brook-Side'
Pearl's refusal to cross until the letter is restored.
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Pearl kisses her dying father: 'A spell was broken... she would grow up amid human joy and sorrow.'
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