sunshine

“She had dark abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam” (51). From the very beginning of the novel The Scarlet Letter, the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, uses sunshine to describe Hester Prynne. This quote implies that the sun is still shining on Hester, yet as the novel goes on the sunshine begins to hide from Hester. This first quote is one of the few that uses sunshine to portray Hester in a good way. N...