The Scarlet Letter
What detail is given to suggest the baby was born in jail?
Chapter two the market place
Chapter two the market place
The daylight seemed foreign to the baby's eyes,
"...a baby of some three months old, who winked and turned aside its little face from the too vivid light of day; because its existence, heretofore, had brought it acquainted only with the gray twilight of a dungeon, or other darksome apartment of the prison."