Contents

Introductory-The Custom-House

I. The Prison Door

II. The Market-Place

III. The Recognition

IV. The Interview

V. Hester at Her Needle

VI. Pearl

VII. The Governor’s Hall

VIII. The Elf-Child and the Minister

IX. The Leech

X. The Leech and His Patient

XI. The Interior of a Heart

XII. The Minister’s Vigil

XIII. Another View of Hester

XIV. Hester and the Physician

XV. Hester and Pearl

XVI. A Forest Walk

XVII. The Pastor and His Parishioner

XVIII. A Flood Of Sunshine

XIX. The Child at the Brookside

XX. The Minister in a Maze

XXI. The New England Holiday

XXII. The Procession

XXIII. The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

XXIV. Conclusion

Afterword

Biographical Timeline

Carol Gilligan is the author of the groundbreaking book, In a Different Voice. In 1997 she became the first gender studies professor at Harvard and she now teaches at New York University. She has been awarded Spencer, Grawemeyer, and Heinz Awards and named one of the twenty-five most influential Americans by Time magazine. Recent works include The Birth of Pleasure, Kyra: A Novel, The Deepening Darkness, The Scarlet Letter (a play), Why Does Patriarchy Persist? (with Naomi Snider), and Darkness Now Visible (with David J. Richards).