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…showed last 75 words of 1215 total…her agony and loneliness. She is an outcast of the Puritan society. For seven years Hester lives isolated from the town. She lives alone with her child in the outskirts of the town. As the years pass by and as she is more involved in helping the sick, the people forget the actual meaning of the letter. The town people now see the letter as a symbol of an able person and not a sinner.