The actions that people take not only affect them but also affect the people closest to them. In The Scarlet Letter Pearl and Hester, Chillingworth and Dimmesdale are all affected by the sin of adultery committed by Hester. This sin has a different emotional, physical and mental impact on each character. Hester Prynne was the most affected of all the characters; she was the adulteress. He must deal with public humiliation and the persistent memory of the sin he committed. “She seemed absolutely hidden behind” (Hawthorne 102) and this is what everyone sees in addition to her real personality. He learns from his mistake by saying "I can teach my Pearl what I learned from this!" (Hawthorne 37) She had changed greatly because of the public embarrassment with which she had become so familiar "Those who had known her before, and expected to see her overshadowed and obscured by a disastrous power, were astonished and even frightened, to perceive now her beauty should shine and form a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was shrouded" (Hawthorne 20)Another character who ...