The adulteress, Hester Prynne, shows a combination of an unrelenting sinner and sainthood, but which one prevails; or do they coexist? In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Hester commits adultery with the town minister and bears a daughter along with the scarlet A on her bosom so everyone can see her sin and shame. Hester undergoes a dramatic change throughout the seven years the book takes place in Boston during the Puritan settlement days, in …showed first 75 words of 465 total…

…showed last 75 words of 465 total…her time because of the strict religious beliefs of the Puritans. Hester is both a sinner and a saint. Hawthorne's Hester Prynne shows a coexistence of sin and sainthood. She is not one, but both. She was immediately depicted as a hussy in the first few pages of the book, but as her character develops in the book she shows that she is not evil. Hester Prynne is a little of both sinner and saint.