chapter 21
Children have always a sympathy in the agitations of those connected with them: always, especially, a sense of any trouble or impending revolution, of whatever kind, in domestic circumstances; and therefore Pearl, who was the gem on her mother's unquiet bosom, betrayed, by the very dance of her spirits, the emotions which none could detect in the marble passiveness of Hester's brow.
Pearl reflects her mother's thoughts and feelings. She is the purity, she is not hypocritic and shows her real emotions, like Hester would like to do, but she can't. Hester is so excited for the upcoming leave that she can not refrain herself. But since she knows what effects her behavior would have, she just stays still, leaving to Pearl the duty of shaking out her emotions.
Again Pearl as the reflection!
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