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.
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.
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