Scarlet letter

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a personal account of a Puritan woman, who is being tried for a sinful crime. This timeless classic, which is full of adultery, betrayal, promiscuity, subterfuge, and intrigue, would make a great coming attraction for a Hollywood movie not to mention a great storyline for this book. This literally masterpiece is set back in seventeenth-century Boston; this setting is the main character’s problem because if it was …showed first 75 words of 1402 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1402 total…the dumb “A” on some woman’s chest hundreds of years ago. Sadly, it seems as though Hawthorne found himself a rather large thesaurus and added a bunch of mindless prattle that mellowed out the high points of the book and expanded on the low points. In many chapters, all he managed to accomplish is to update the lives of the characters, mostly by irrelevant drivel. Other than these comments, it was rather good book.