The Scarlet Letter

Chapters 19 & 20

1. Why won’t Pearl cross the stream and go to her mother?
2. Identify the context and reflect on the following quotation. “Doth he love us? . . Will he go back with us, hand in hand, we three together, into the town?” 145
3. What have Dimmesdale and Hester decided to do?.
4. What has come over Dimmesdale? How is he acting and why is he acting this way?