"The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Significance of the Three Scaffold Scenes

Everyone as children have those special moments that make them feel like they are older. Getting an allowance, a later curfew, their first job: these are all big steps in one's life to maturing and becoming an adult. There are the important times that one never forgets because of their huge effect on that person's life. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the three scaffold scenes in The Scarlet Letter to reveal to the readers three stages in each of the main characters' lives, and he also uses them to construct the beginning, the climax, and the end of the story. The very first scene that introduces…