while on the scaffold, she sees her husband who left town some while ago. She notices him, and also notices that he looks a lot different.
In the first scaffold scene in Chapter 2 Hester Prynne's punishment upon the scaffold is to stand there for three hours and bear the letter "A" on her chest
Hester Prynne is taken to the scaffold in the market place so that she may be publicly shamed. While in the scaffold Hester thinks about her parents, her new life, and her childhood.
Hester Prynne mounts the scaffold in the month of June in The Scarlet Letter.
Hester thinks about her past while she is on the scaffold. She thinks about her family, her husband, and her time in Europe with him.
Hester and Pearl had been visiting Governor Bellingham's house, where they were discussing Pearl being taken away from Hester. On their way home, they stop at the scaffold where Hester was punished.
It has been seven years since Hester stood on the scaffold holding Pearl as an infant.
To face her consequences at the scaffold
Hester Prynne stood on the scaffold for several hours. She was publicly shamed and humiliated before the community as punishment for committing adultery.
Hester recognizes her husband, Roger Chillingworth, in the crowd as she stands on the scaffold. She notices him standing among the spectators, staring at her with a dark and vengeful expression.
his one shoulder is higher than the other. This is Hester's husband
Roger Chillingworth approaches Dimmesdale just as he invites Pearl and Hester to join him near the scaffold.
One example of foreshadowing is when Chillingworth is talking to Hester in the dungeon. He keeps saying "He will be known! He will be known! He will be known!" Here, Chillingworth is talking about how he will find out who the father of Hester's child is, as this is the man who wronged both Chillingworth and Hester. Another example is some of the scaffold scenes. In the second scaffold scene, which takes place at night, Dimmesdale, Hester, and Pearl stand on the scaffold together holding hands. Pearl asks Dimmesdale if they will stand on the scaffold together the next day, in which Dimmesdale replies that they will another day, but not tomorrow. This foreshadows the last scaffold scene, where Dimmesdale calls Hester and Pearl to the scaffold during the Election Procession.