Scarlet Letter
... Hawthorne concentrated on every last angle of his book. He was even so clever as to alter the name of the adulteress’s daughter to a more suiting and symbolic name. Hawthorne envisioned this girl as beautiful, the product of a shameful sin, just as a pearl is to an oyster, giving Hawthorne the name Pearl. “That little creature, whose innocent life had sprung, by the inscrutable degree of Providence, a lovely and immortal flower, out of the rank luxuriance of a guilty passion.”(89). Hawthorne even planned this book down to the use of certain colors, specifically the color red. The scarlet letter itself is red, the color of passion and fire, helping to show the seriousness of this sin. To the naked eye, the scarlet letter, “A”, would seem to stand only f...