"The Scarlett Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The Scarlett Letter" can have many endings but I believe the ending will be a sad one. Hester Prynne has a big secret she does not want anyone to know, and by the end i feel that secret will be uncovered and she and Pearls father will have serious consequences to face. As for Pearl, she has some unusual qualaties and characteristics that point her in the direction of witchcraft and by the end everyone is going to figure out what she is which will cause the people of Salem to make accusations of Pearl and her family. Roger Chillingworth who is Hester's husband does not know who the father is but in the end he may find out and not like who the fahter is. he may want to take punishment into his own hands and control the fate of the mystery man. This may cause tension between him and Hester who did not want to tell her husband who the mystery man is. There may even be death, heartache, consequences, and decisions to be made on some of the characters parts. Overall the story will have a sad ending which some of us might not have seen coming. This is my hypothesis of the ending of "The Scarlet Letter".