Scarlet Letter: part 2

   Hawthorne introduces a very estranged character in the novel. Chillingworth is a man coming to the town to try to discover who Hester Prynne committed adultery with. He is first looked upon by the towns people in a positive way. People then learn he is a dark person and they start calling him a leech, or black man which is a connection to the Devil. This allows the reader to look at him as the antagonist of the story, creating a more romantic type feeling between Prynne and Dimmesdale.