The actions people take not only affect them, but also affect the people closest to them. In The Scarlet Letter, Pearl and Hester, Chillingworth and Dimmesdale are all affected by Hester's sin of adultery. This sin has a different emotional, physical, and mental impact on each character. Hester Prynne was the most affected of all the characters; she was the adulterous woman. She must face public humiliation and the lingering memory of the sin she committed. “She seemed absolutely hidden behind it” (Hawthorne 102) and that is what everyone sees in addition to her true personality. She learns from her mistake, saying "I can teach my Pearl what I have learned from it!"(Hawthorne 37) She had changed greatly in the face of the public embarrassment with which she had become so familiar "Those who had her known before, and expecting to see her obscured and obscured by a disastrous power, we were astonished, even surprised, to perceive now that her beauty shone and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped" ( Hawthorne 20) Another character who ...