Character Letter to Author Dimmesdale; Scarlet Letter

My Dearest Reverend Author Dimmesdale,

I have recently read the story of your life and I believe that some of the ways you handled yourself where rather horrendous. The initial thing that you did in the wrong was that you committed the sin of adultery. Did you have no respect for Hester's future in the colony? More importantly did you have no respect for God, the one who you serve? Being a Reverend your nature should have been to tell the truth, yet you held in all that guiltiness and all that shame in for so long that it began to become your demise. As a man of God you should have know not to commit this sin, but what ever be the reason you still could've handled the consequences better.

You owed many things to your colony Reverend, but the thing you owed the most was your honesty. Reverend it is better to be hated for who you really are, than to be loved for who you are not. Although you were thought of as a Christian Leader of you colony, that doesn't give you any reason to not confess to your sins. Although you began to come clean towards the end of your downfall in life, you shouldn't have waited so long. Let's not forget to mention Hester Pryne, the woman you sinned with. You owed Hester a lot more support than you gave her. You should have been there to help her take care of and raise Pearl, the product of your sin.

Your life though was not completely dishonest; you have many of achievements that made your life a good one. Regardless of the things you did wrong you finally came to terms with you transgressions, and despite the fact that it was late in your life, you tried to make the best of what was left. For that I congratulate you, and I hope that in your near future you won't wait so long to do the right thing. You are a godly man that has handled himself not with the best of ability but reasonably well throughout your life time.

Sincerely,

PJ Hickman