A review by manxomemia
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Study Guide by Nathaniel Hawthorne

3.0

I did not find The Scarlet Letter very accessible to me, and I think most of that is to do with the language; it is incredibly poetic and flowery, but coupled with the "thees", "thous", etc. that were popular in literature of the time (if not actually real-life conversation), I found that I had to read many sentences a few times to understand them. Though a few parts gripped me, generally I was fairly disengaged, though the book is really more of a novella, so this wasn't too much of a problem for me. I think if you can understand and appreciate the writing of this book, you will really like it. Over all, it was a little too flowery for my taste.