This article starts and develops with a clue—the letter A. Changes in Hester reveal themselves to the reader, as the story develops, from adultery to ability and then to angel. Due to her devotion and penance, Hester had been accepted by all, but her hope of running away with Arthur Dimmesdale in the end suggests the rebellion of her character; however, the contradiction in her mind and action reveals her love for Dimmesdale. That love, which she had been stubbornly holding to all the time, always exist in her mind.