In this chapter, Hester, Dimmesdale, and Pearl leave the forest. Dimmesdale walks through town and he is acting weird. He doesn't help the people that come up to him and ask for help. He is afraid that he will tell them something wicked. He sees some of the men that work on the ship he will sail away on in a couple of days and he almost talks to them, but decided not too. Dimmesdale tells Chillingworth that he doesn't need anymore medicine and Chillingworth gets suspicious of what he knows. Dimmesdale then starts to write his sermon for the next Sunday.
-There, on the table, with the inky pen beside it, was an unfinished sermon, with a sentence broken in the midst, where his thoughts had ceased to gush out upon the page two days before. He knew that it was himself, the thin and white-cheeked minister, who had done and suffered these things, and written thus far into the Election Sermon! But he seemed to stand apart, and eye this former self with scornful, pitying, but half-envious curiosity. That self was gone! Another man had returned out of the forest; a wiser one; with a knowledge of hidden mysteries which the simplicity of the former never could have reached. A bitter kind of knowledge that!
-This passage is talking about his sermon and the change in Dimmesdale. He had started to write the sermon two days before but now he was a wiser person. Someone wiser and newer had come out of the forest. His old self was gone.
-There, on the table, with the inky pen beside it, was an unfinished sermon, with a sentence broken in the midst, where his thoughts had ceased to gush out upon the page two days before. He knew that it was himself, the thin and white-cheeked minister, who had done and suffered these things, and written thus far into the Election Sermon! But he seemed to stand apart, and eye this former self with scornful, pitying, but half-envious curiosity. That self was gone! Another man had returned out of the forest; a wiser one; with a knowledge of hidden mysteries which the simplicity of the former never could have reached. A bitter kind of knowledge that!
-This passage is talking about his sermon and the change in Dimmesdale. He had started to write the sermon two days before but now he was a wiser person. Someone wiser and newer had come out of the forest. His old self was gone.
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