ntrodebe 's review for:

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
2.0

This book probably received more flak than it deserves, it was a lot more readable than I expected and the characters were interesting. But man, the symbolism was gratuitous. A general pattern emerged where Hawthorne made not so subtle allusions to the ideas he was trying to get across, immediately followed by blunt descriptions of his intended symbolism in case the reader missed it.