nsidered sympathetic in local people's eyes. Instead, it is "a blessing on the rightous colony of the Massachusettes, where iniquity is dragged out into the sunshine!"(P46) Although it is no great distance from the prison-door to the market-place, to Hester Prynne, a prisoner, it is reckoned a journey of some length. However haughty she is,"she perchance underwent an agony from every footstep of those that thronged to see her, as if her heart has been flung into the street for them all to spurn and trample upon."(P46)