The Scarlet Letter
Why does the scarlet letter have an Hester "the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself"?
chapter 2, page 51
chapter 2, page 51
Suddenly Hester has become a person separated by her sin and the letter which represents that sin. People will never look at her in the same way and will always see her in a different light. Her "sphere" now contains only Hester and Pearl.