The Scarlet Letter: Summary
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The Scarlet Letter opens in an Algonquin village, where the
Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and his close companion, Running Moose, have
come on a peace mission. Arthur is at home among the indigenes, but he is
special in this regard. "You're the only [white man] who comes [to us] with
open heart," says the tribal chieftain, Metacomet, who th ....
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.... comprising not only
dogmatists and invaders, but ecumenicals, free-thinkers, Quakers,
antinomians, and former members of the Merry-Mount colony. So the mood is
hopeful as the story draws to a close. The community survives, and with it,
presumably, the prospects for the great experiment. Prospectively, too, the
experiment moves outward across the continent, where the Dimmesdale family,
riding off together into the sunset, goes in search o ....
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Number of words: 358
Number of pages: 2 (approx. 250 words per double-spaced page)
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