Entry 18
"The glow, which they had just before beheld burning on his cheek, was extinguished, like a flame that sinks down hopelessly among the late decaying embers" (Hawthorne, Chapter 23).
Hawthorne uses a simile here. He compares the fainting of the blush and life on Dimmesdale's cheeks to a fading fire among dead ashes. It gives the reader great imagery and also explains just how the fire within him dies so quickly after his sermon. Dimmesdale put his entire being into delivering such a brilliant sermon.
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