Answer:
Hester Prynne is a young woman who commits adultery in a Puritan town of Massachusetts. She now has to live with the consequences for the rest of her life since these crimes were taken very seriously as her actions were not religious and was against the law. The townspeople go over the extent to make her feel less than and even go to such regards to gather on the lawn when she is released from jail. Hester no longer has privacy since wherever she goes, the townspeople ridicule and humiliate her by calling her such names and calls her daughter, Pearl, a devil child.