Scarlet Letter Passage Analysis

The plot in this passage has a large amount of to-dos with flashbacks. In the story the couple, Hester and William, had disagreed on whether or not the boys should go to the circus or not.
The story starts off with Hester agreeing for them to go by telling William her story of when she went to the circus as a child. It carrys on with William thinking about the time he had gone too. Later on after realizing how much fun he had, “I reckon I could tell all that fools jokes now… I mind I had on a pair of new boots that hurt me like a mischief…” It flashes back to the times they had gone to the circus, showing William how much he adored going. It impacted the way he thought of things, showed him that his boys were hard working enough that they