Chapter 24 seems to be the most important to me because it is where the townspeople fight about seeing or not seeing the Scarlet letter on Dimmesdale chest. The townspeople found it hard to believe, because of their love for him. This is the chapter where we see Dimmesdale and Chillingworth die, and the final scaffold scene.

Passage


"So said Hester Prynne, and
glanced her sad eyes downward at the scarlet letter. And, after many, many years, a
new grave was delde, near an old and sunken one, in that burial ground beside
 which King's Chapel has since been built. It was near that old and sunken
grave, yet with a  space between, as if the dust of the two sleepers had no
right to mingle. Yet one tombstone server for
both."
This quote is significant because after Hester's death, she was put near Dimmesdale's grave and after death, they have the chance to be together but not fully because their tombstone is separately a little. This shows that even after death, they cannot fully be together and there is something that will always separate them.

Chapter 21 is important because it is where the narrator talks about how much Hester has isolated herself from the town and what its causing her. The isolation has caused her to not go to the celebration of the new
governor who has come to take Governor's Bellingham. Also, it is in this chapter that we discover that Chillingworth will be going on the ship with Hester and Pearl because the ship needs a doctor and Chillingworth is the only one available. This is significant because Hester's reason for leaving was to get
away from Chillingworth, and if he comes along, that will not be able to happen. 

Passage

"On this public holiday, as on all other occassions, for seven years past, Hester was
clad in a garment of coarse gray cloth. Not more by its hue than by some
indescribable peculiarity in its fashion, it had the effect of making her fade
personally out of sight and outline; while, again, the scarlet letter brought
her back from this twilight indistinctness and revealed her under the moral
aspect of its own illumination. Her face, so long familiar to the townspeople,
showed the marble quietude which they were accustomed to behold there. It was
like a mask; or, rather, like the frozen calmness of a dead woman's features,
owing this dreary resemblance to the fact that Hester was actually dread, in
respect to any claim of sympathy, and had departed out of the world with which
she still seemed to mingle."

This quote is important because the townspeople are used to the appearance of Hester and the scarlet letter. They are not surprised anymore. The scarlet letter is like her mask because its where she tries to hide all her expressions so that she doesn't show it to the townspeople. She was not earthly anymore because her soul had been taken from her when she was accused of her sin but she was still able to be on earth but not live like the other townspeople.

This chapter takes place mostly in the woods and now that, Hester has removed the scarlet letter, Pearl does not recognize her mother without it. After Hester and Dimmesdale talk, they ask for Pearl to come back and she responds that she won't until her mother puts the scarlet letter back on. This is significant because its shows how the scarlet letter has become a big important aspect of Pearl's life because without it, she can't even recognize her mother. She has been growing up with it, and for her mother to remove it from a day to another is too much for Pearl to take.

 “Will he
go back with us, hand in hand, we three together, into the
town?” 
This quote is important because Pearl asks her mother if Dimmesdale will go back to town with them. It's important for Pearl to ask this because she wants to let the townspeople know that they are close to Dimmesdale and that all three of them support each other. But, Hester and Dimmesdale know that it is not the right thing to do because it is something they should keep a secret, knowing that Dimmesdale's reputation is on the line. 

Chapter 18 is important because it is where Hester and Dimmesdale decide to go to Europe and Hester also removes the scarlet letter from her bosom. They both have a feeling of joy because they can now be in a place much better and not have to face the humiliation that they have in Boston. Hester tells Dimmesdale that being away will reunite the family that they always wanted and that Dimmesdale and Pearl will have the father and daughter bond they always wanted. 

Passage
"But Hester Prynne, with a mind of native courage
and activity, and for so long a period not merely estranged, but outlawed, from
society, had habituated herself to such latitude of speculation as was
altogether foreign to the clergyman. She had wandered, without rule or guidance,
in a moral wilderness...The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where
other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her
teachers,—stern and wild ones,—and they had made her strong, but taught her much
amiss."
This quote is significant because it shows that the isolation that Hester is in, has taken her into a world were nobody guides, nobody gives her advice or tells her what and what not to do. The scarlet letter represented something she did that most puritan woman in the town did not dare to do. Hester was the one who taught the
other why they should not do what Hester did because they will face the same consequences she faced. 

Chapter 17 has many revelations because Hester tells Dimmesdale who Chillingworth actually is and he is surprised because he knows that Chillingworth has been with him the whole time and he did not notice
who he actually was. Dimmesdale now knows that Chillingworth was the cause of his sufferings and is to blame for all the things that Hester and Dimmesdale have gone through. It takes a while for Dimmesdale to forgive Hester but when he does, they talk about leaving to Europe and forgetting all that happened to them. 

Passage


"They sat down again, side by side, and hand clasped in hand,
on the mossy trunk of the fallen tree. Life had never brought them a gloomier
hour; it was the point whither their pathaway had so long been tending, and
darkening ever as it stole along- and yet it enclosed a charm that made them
linger upon it, and claim another, and another, and, after all, another
moment."
This quote is important because it was the first time that Hester and Dimmesdale could be together. They had faced many problems but all of them lead to this one point in their life. This was just another moment in their
life but it didn't seem like it to them because they knew that they did not get opportunities like this everyday. 

This chapter is important because it is where Pearl asks why the sun does not shine on her mother and suggest that  it might be because there is something on her chest that keeps it away and it is also where Pearl starts to ask many questions that a girl her age would not ask. For example, she asks her mother to tell her about the black man's book.

Passage


“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...It will not flee from me, for I wear
nothing on my bosom yet!”
“Nor ever will, my child, I hope,” said
Hester.
“And why not, mother?” asked Pearl, stopping short...“Will it not
come of its own accord, when I am a woman grown?”
This quote is significant because Pearl asks the sun hides from her mother and suggests that it might be because she has something dark on her bosom that keeps it away. This is important because Pearl feels deeply inside that the Scarlet has a greater significance than what they make her think. 

In Chapter 15, Hester knows she has committed another sin and that is to hate her husband. She knows it is not right but how can she not after all the things that Chillingworth has done. Pearl decides to also put a letter "A" on her chest and hopes that her mother will ask her about it. Hester is amazed at all the questions that Pearl asks, she knows that she cannot answer all of them because she is too young to understand and it is not the right time to tell her. 

Passage
"My little Pearl!" said Hester, after a
moment's silence, "the green letter, and on thy childish bosom, has no purport.
But dost thou know, my child, what this letter means which thy mother is doomed
to wear."
This quote is significant because Hester tells Pearl that there is no point of Pearl wearing the green letter because it does not have the same significance as the one she has to wear. Pearl does not know the real meaning of it and uses it as if she could play with.

This is my favorite chapter because Hester tells Chillingworth that she cannot remove the scarlet letter willingly because the only one who has authority to do so is God and he decides when its time. Hester and Chillingworth talk for a while and Hester notices that Chillingworth has become evil because of all the things he has done with Dimmesdale and looking for revenge has gone to far. Chillingworth thinks that Dimmesdale has increased his debt because he has let him live with him and its his own fault of his actions.
"...evidence of a
man's faculty of transforming himself into a
devil...." 

This quote is important because Chillingworth's actions have turned him into a devil in looking for revenge, he has done actions that went ahead of its limits. Dimmesdale and Hester are not the only ones doing sins now, Chillingworth is also added to the list. 

In this chapter Pearl is 7 years old and she is active in the society helping people. Hester's "A" has really changed meaning to show her strength and Hester has changed. She is no longer sweet and passionate. She is a mean version of her old self. She worries about Dimmesdale because she is still keeping Chillingworths identity a secret. 

Passage

 "Individuals in private life, meanwhile, had quite forgiven Hester Prynne for her
frailty; nay, more, they had begun to look upon the scarlet letter as the token,
not of that one sin, for which she had borne so long and dreary a penance, but
of her many good deeds since. “Do you see that woman with the embroidered
badge?” they would say to strangers. “It is our Hester,—the town’s own
Hester,—who is so kind to the poor, so helpful to the sick, so comfortable to
the afflicted!” Then, it is true, the propensity of human nature to tell the
very worst of itself, when embodied in the person of another, would constrain
them to whisper the black scandal of bygone years."

This passage shows us that the townspeople had forgiven Hester and it shows that they respect her. They don't see her as a criminal anymore, but

This whole chapter is a conversation between Chillingworth and Dimmesdale about guilt and confession. They strike up this conversation after seeing the herb growing on the grave. They concluded that this plant was there due to unconfessed sin. Then they talk about if sin should be kept a secret or told so that everyone could know and there was no more guilt. Dimmesdale stands up for people that keep their sins a secret because he knows he is doing the same thing. This is the chapter where Chillingworth finds out Dimmesdale's sin. He removes Dimmesdale's shirt and sees why he keeps his hand on his shirt, we assume this is a scarlet letter.

Passage

"After a brief pause, the physician turned away.
But with what a wild look of wonder, joy, and honor! With what a
ghastly rapture, as it were, too mighty to be expressed only by the eye and
features, and therefore bursting forth through the whole ugliness of his figure,
and making itself even riotously manifest by the extravagant gestures with which
he threw up his arms towards the ceiling, and stamped his foot upon the
floor!"
This is the passage where we see Chillingworth find out what Dimmesdale has done. This passage is talking about the scarlet letter that Dimmesdale wore beneath his clothes. He is owning up to what he has done in private and this shows his guilt.