"Just where she had paused, the brook chanced to form a pool so smooth and quiet that it reflected a perfect image of her little figure, with all the brilliant picturesqueness of her beauty, in its adornment of flowers and wreathed foliage, but more refined and spiritualized than the reality. This image, so nearly identical with the living Pearl, seemed to communicate somewhat of its own shadowy and intangible quality to the child herself.
Again the reflection. In this moment it appears perfec: the letter A and Pearl both represent A.D and Hester's link, that had never been in the previous years.Now that they are together, that symbol, the A, does not have to be there, to remind Hester her love. As well as the A, Pearl, who is the living link, the living A, now seems to be just a reflection, something that does not exist: the impossible event (the couple staying together) has now been won: no symbols need to stand for what they miss, cause they aren't missing anything anymore.
Theme: Forest vs. Society. Or, The Meaning of Sin.
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