Jessica Clay The Weed That Becomes Uprooted Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, is full of symbols. The names of characters and images, portrayed throughout the novel, have symbolic meaning. Roger Prynne returns to his wife in Boston only to find she has committed adultery. He changes his name to Roger Chillingworth in hopes of finding out who is the father of his wife’s daughter. He becomes obsessed with revenge. The word “chilling” …showed first 75 words of 1965 total…

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