As she is led into the marketplace, a group of women discuss what should be done with her. Hester Prynne was brought forth from the prison while holding her child, and it becomes immediately apparent that the crime she committed was adultery. Before the story is told, he tells the audience that he will be willing to show them the original documents if they so desire to insure the relative accuracy of the story. Surveyor Pue,” and that he still has the original papers.
The narrator then states that he used the documents associated with the scarlet letter to write The Scarlet Letter, as “the main facts of that story are authorized and authenticated by the document of Mr. The narrator then impulsively put the scarlet letter on his chest, and he swore that when he did he “experienced a sensation not altogether physical, yet almost so, of burning heat and as if the letter were not of red cloth, but red-hot iron.” Later, he discovered that within the scarlet letter was a twisted “small roll of dingy paper,” which included a cursory description of a woman whose name was Hester Prynne, “who appeared to have been a rather noteworthy personage in the view of our ancestors,” seeing that “She had flourished during the period between the early days of Massachusetts and the close of the seventeenth century.” The paper discusses Prynne as being a virtuous woman who helped others and gave them advice.
Regardless, his fascination for the scarlet letter only grew, as “My eyes fastened themselves upon the old scarlet letter, and would not be turned aside.” When it came to the letter, “each limb proved to be precisely three inches and a quarter in length,” which leads the narrator to deduce that it was supposed to be worn, though he admits to his ignorance regarding for what occasion it should be donned. One day, in his leisure time, while he was “Poking and burrowing into the heaped-up rubbish in the corner unfolding one and another document, and reading the names of vessels that had long ago foundered at sea or rotted at the wharves,” the narrator made a precious discovery, for he had found a piece of “fine red cloth, much worn and faded,” embroidered with gold, though “greatly frayed and defaced so that none, or very little, of the glitter was left.” The narrator took some time to appreciate the old but still interesting cloth, as even though it was in bad condition, it had been woven with “wonderful skill,” and furthermore, there was the “capital letter A” on the surface. As he works in the customhouse, he discovers many objects which he deems to be worthless. The Scarlet Letter begins with the narration of an unnamed narrator who held the position of surveyor of a customhouse in Salem, Massachusetts, centuries ago.
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