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Hawthorne ends a chapter with this sentence, after describing Dimmesdale in the pulpit and Hester in the marketplace surrounded by gawkers: What imagination would have been irreverent enough to surmise
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Hawthorne ends a chapter with this sentence, after describing Dimmesdale in the pulpit and Hester in the marketplace surrounded by gawkers:

What imagination would have been irreverent enough to surmise that the same scorching stigma was on them both!

What is ambiguous about this statement?

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It is unclear if readers are supposed to find Dimmesdale more or less virtuous than Hester.

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Both have problems but its difficult to personalize Dimmesdale.

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It is unclear if readers are supposed to find Dimmesdale more or less virtuous than Hester.

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