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The style of The Scarlet Letter is clean, precise, and effective. In the novel Hawthorne utilizes all his writing skills. In doing this he includes a heroine. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne is a victim and a heroine that is admired because of her strong will, and disregard for other's views of her.         She comes from an impoverished but genteel English family, having lived in a "decayed house of gray stone, …

…ahead of her time, she is vocal, proud, head-strong, and confident, in an age where women were to be seen and not heard. She was deeply admired by all the townspeople, despite her adulterous past, and public shame of wearing a scarlet 'A' upon her breast. Hester endures her punishment without a word against it, and grows from it, making her stronger and a woman to be admired from her puritan counterparts, and women today.