Entry 4
"But now, with this unattended walk from her prison door, began the daily custom; and she must either sustain and carry it forward by the ordinary resources of her nature, or sink beneath it. She could no longer borrow from the future to help her through the present grief" (Hawthorne, Chapter 5).
With this quote from the text, we get foreshadowing directly about Hester's future. From the moment she walks out of that prison door, she knows that life isn't going to be easy, for herself or Pearl. Hester couldn't rely on time passing to heal her or cleanse her of her sin. She would have to deal with it for the rest of her life. It's saying that she must trudge forward or be swept up by her shame and swallowed.
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