In the novel The Scarlet Letter there are many characters. Out of the four important characters in the novel Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale has the best story. Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale has a very important role in the book, because if he was not in it there would be no book. Arthur Dimmesdale was the fellow adulterer, the father of the elf-child, Pearl, and the minister of the town. "Dimmesdale was a person of very striking aspect, …showed first 75 words of 1450 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1450 total…and he does not have his hand over his heart. “Had he exhibited such energy as was seen in his gait and air with which he kept his pace in the procession. There was no feebleness of step, as at other times; his frame was not bent; nor did hid hand rest ominously upon his heart. His strength seemed not of the body. It might be spiritual, And imparted to him by angelic ministrations.”(Hawthorne 165)