The First Chapter Of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

This title serves to describe and state what the first chapter is about. These pages give an insight into the narrator’s life, which is similar to that of Hawthorne, and the custom house in which he works in and made a crucial discovery in. The narrator is setting the scene through the discovery of the scarlet letter. In conjunction with the discovery of the scarlet letter the narrator also found a scroll from which parts of his story came, and in this discovery he states that this is a partly fictional account of Hester Prynne’s life. • Imagery/description- With his florid cheek, his compact figure…”
The title is a part of the scene that has been set. People are gathered in front of the “prison-door.” The same door that Anne Hutchinson