Discussion Question
1) Who is the Stranger in the Crowd? Hester's Secret Lover?
2) What is the Stranger in the Crowd telling Hester not to say when he shushes her?
3) Why do you think Hawthorne made the Stranger in the Crowd Native American? Is Hawthorne trying to depict both Hester and the Stranger in the Crowd as outsiders thus making them allies?
Who is the stranger in the crowd? How does he know Hester? Do you think that he is trying to help her with her current situation? Why do you think that he feels the townsman has made "A wise sentence" on page 56?
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