chapter 15
"Soon finding, however, that either she or the image was unreal, she turned elsewhere for better pastime."
Here maybe, Hath. is trying to tell us that her, symbol of sin, was actually unreal, because committed with love.
I'm trying to say that Pearl is the symbol of the sin that Hester and Arthur committed. But if "either SHE or the image WAS UNREAL" it seems to me that the sin is therefore unreal as well, being her the sin, because H. and A. love each other.
The sin is unreal, yes. Of course, look at the end of the book - what happens to Pearl?
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