Disagreement In Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter'
The disagreement starts with Hester trying to get William too allow their sons to go to the circus. She’s claiming that William has worked their sons all summer and hasn’t given them much in return. She’s wanting them to go because it would be something they would never forget, and she remembers the time she went, and how much she enjoyed it. This starts to open up William to the ideas of them going, by taking him back to a time when he snuck off to go to the circus, but it wasn’t just any circus he went to the same one Hester was talking about, but neither of them knew the other was there. Hester left awestruck by the fact his strict parents allowed him to go, but then he revealed how he wasn’t allowed to, but he did it against their will. Though he doesn’t regret it because the memories he has from that day will last him. He remembered when the clown told his jokes, and he said “I guess I could tell all of those fools jokes now. Sometimes I can’t help thinking about them” this small disagreement may have changed his life because he was working them all summer and never letting them do anything or getting them anything for their work. It was a small flashback, but this small encounter had a big impact. Leading him to take a ten dollar and lay it on
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It appealed to Williams emotions making him feel some sentiment towards his sons because of his past and all the things he remembered from his time at the circus. His feelings toward his sons changed because of him remembering the good time he had and the experiences of the time he went to the circus. Though not revealing this to Hester left her not understanding and leaving her like she missed something. She didn’t know what it was she missed, but in the end she got what it was she wanted, and gave the boys the money, and told them what William said to say to them. Leading their conversations to change from business to
It appealed to Williams emotions making him feel some sentiment towards his sons because of his past and all the things he remembered from his time at the circus. His feelings toward his sons changed because of him remembering the good time he had and the experiences of the time he went to the circus. Though not revealing this to Hester left her not understanding and leaving her like she missed something. She didn’t know what it was she missed, but in the end she got what it was she wanted, and gave the boys the money, and told them what William said to say to them. Leading their conversations to change from business to