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Nathaniel Hawthorne used his writing skills to appropriately show the strict intolerant ways of the disciplined Puritan America of 1850, with his novel The Scarlet Letter. This novel has become a classic, because of the accurate portrayal of the conservative Puritan ways. His novel is one of few to tell of the true Puritan lifestyle. The Scarlet Letter is a novel that is set in Salem, Massachusetts, the Puritan New England of the seventeenth century. The book begins by explaining that Hester Prynne has committed adultery and has a child with a man that is not her husband. Hester will not tell who the father of this child (Pearl) is. As a punishment for her sin, she must stand on a scaffold and receive the insults of the people for three hours and she must wear a scarlet "A" on her bosom for the rest of her life as a symbol for her sin. Hester was sent before her husband to Massachusetts. Her husband, never made it to Massachusetts and was assumed dead on the Pacific. Hester found out this was not true when she saw her husband standing in the crowd watching her on the scaffold. Later, Hester's husband (Roger Chillingworth) visits her in jail. Roger apologizes that he was late but explains that he was captured by Indians and h