"Mother,” said little Pearl, “the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom. "
The sunshine does not love Hester because she is not like Pearl. Pearl is pure, she is happy, she is nature, so as a fact of that the sunshine is a part of Pearl, she is connected to it. But Hester is not pure anymore. She sinned. She is not filled with light. Sure, she still has light in her, not like Chillingworth, who is completely associated with darkness. But she carries darkness with her.
Are there ways for Hester to become pure again? Are there descriptions you can use to show Hester's grayness? If so, what are they? No one has picked any out.
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