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The physician is Hester's husband...
The stranger, Roger Chillingworth, is Hester's husband. He does not want people to know that he is her husband.
After Pearl is born.
Roger Chillingworth is physician & Hester Prynne's husband.
In "The Scarlet Letter," Roger Chillingworth is the protagonist Hester Prynne's estranged husband who arrives in the colony years after she was publicly shamed and forced to wear the scarlet letter 'A' for adultery. He seeks revenge on Hester's lover, Arthur Dimmesdale, and becomes consumed by bitterness and obsession.
The antagonist in "The Scarlet Letter" is seen as Roger Chillingworth, Hester Prynne's vengeful and manipulative husband. Chillingworth's obsession with seeking revenge on Hester's lover, Reverend Dimmesdale, drives much of the conflict in the novel.
The character you are referring to is Roger Chillingworth. He is the estranged husband of Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "The Scarlet Letter." Chillingworth is a vengeful and deformed scholar who seeks to torment Hester's lover, Reverend Dimmesdale, throughout the story.
Reverend Dimmesdale visits Hester while she is in jail.
Hester's full name in The Scarlet Letter is Hester Prynne.
He's a character in the book "The Scarlet Letter" By Nathaniel Hawthorne. He's Hester Prynne's husband.
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the stranger that we later find out is roger chillingworth Hester's husband