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Authors sometimes use symbols in their novels to represent different objects, people or ideas. One example is the S on Superman's uniform, which symbolizes him being supper. In "The Scarlet Letter" Nathaniel Hawthorne creates the symbolism of the letter "A" to ....

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.... with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourshes of gold thread..."(50-1). Many people there to see her when she reveals the “A” on her chest. Most of the town people are astonished and startled on her beauty still shone. Even though the big red letter on her chest stood for adultery. As the novel progressed the meaning as the "A”" made a change for the better in Hester's life. In chapters before of the novel the letter "A" on Hester's bosom had negative meaning, but this time Hawthorne turns the meaning around in the story to mean able. Now that she has given many hours of time and service to the sick, poor and troubled she ....