Kristen Brentzel The Signs of an Author Symbols add so much to an authors work. To be able to play the game of figuring out those symbols is on reason most readers pick up certain author’s writings. Hawthorne is one of those writers. In this book we are showered with wonderful symbols and clues to conjure into our interpretation of the story. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, life is centered around a …showed first 75 words of 1387 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1387 total…is one though that most can see but do not put much effort of thought into. It, to some, is simply another setting in the story. The forest is where it all began, the sin, the deceit, the lust, and the love, the child’s beginning and the main characters endings all had direct relationships to the forest. 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** 1.Norko, Julie. "Hawthorn’s Love Letters: The Threshold World of Sophie Peabody." ATQ (June 1993):127. 16 October 2000