Entry 3

Entry 3

"When he found the eyes of Hester Prynne fastened on his own, and saw that she appeared to recognize him, he slowly and calmly raised his finger, and made a gesture with it in the air and laid it on his lips" (Hawthorne, Chapter 3).

Immediately, this leads the reader to believe that this man has some sort of connection to Hester, that he has some sort of involvement in her secret. My initial thought was that this man was her lover, who had yet to confess his sin of adultery alongside her. But, further reading down, I concluded that this man is her husband, who had finally made it to the New World, only to witness something he could not believe. It's truly ironic that he happened to arrive just as his wife is condemned for adultery and holding a child in her hands that is not his. 

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Power of Silence. Diginomica. Web. 20 Oct. 2014. <http://diginomica.com/2014/07/23/sound-silence-drown-unisys-painful-transition-cloud-enabled-world/#.VEWDCbDF_5w>.