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In almost every story, conflict plays a central role. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is no exception. One of the characters who experiences conflict in Hawthorne's book is the minister Arthur Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale's struggle was not with another person though. His struggle was with himself. The cause of Dimmesdale's struggles are the same as Hester Prynne's. They committed adultery and hester b