The Scarlet Letter
What technique is Hawthorne using when he describes Pearl as a "lovely amd immortal flower"?
Chapter 4?
Chapter 4?
The description of Pearl as "that little creature, whose innocent life had sprung, by the inscrutable decree of Providence, a lovely and immortal flower, out of the rank luxuriance of a guilty passion" is symbolic. Pearl is a symbol of love and passion.
The Scarlet Letter