The evidence of her affair became apparent when she began showing signs of the unwed pregnancy, so essentially without Pearl, the conformed Puritanical society would never have known the truth. Many people would consider the baby a curse for instantaneously turning the townspeople against Hester, and it didn't help that for the first weeks of her life she certainly wasn’t a joy. When Pearl was born, she was a sickly, screaming baby, creating trouble for her mother. However after a visit from the controversial Doctor Chillingworth, Hester experiences a revolution in her baby. “How strange it seemed to the sad woman, as she watched the growth, and the beauty that became every day more brilliant, and the intelligence that threw its quivering sunshine over the tiny features of this child!” (Hawthorne
The evidence of her affair became apparent when she began showing signs of the unwed pregnancy, so essentially without Pearl, the conformed Puritanical society would never have known the truth. Many people would consider the baby a curse for instantaneously turning the townspeople against Hester, and it didn't help that for the first weeks of her life she certainly wasn’t a joy. When Pearl was born, she was a sickly, screaming baby, creating trouble for her mother. However after a visit from the controversial Doctor Chillingworth, Hester experiences a revolution in her baby. “How strange it seemed to the sad woman, as she watched the growth, and the beauty that became every day more brilliant, and the intelligence that threw its quivering sunshine over the tiny features of this child!” (Hawthorne