Chapter 2, 'The Market-Place'
The original description: gold thread, fantastic flourishes, defiant beauty.
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The embroidered A shifts meaning across the novel — Adulteress, Able, Angel — becoming the central ambiguous symbol of American literature.
Chapter 13, 'Another View of Hester'
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Chapter 12, 'The Minister's Vigil'
The enormous A appearing in the night sky during the meteor.
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