this just pissed me off fr

Edit 10/31/24: Okay, so I've had some time to sit with my thoughts on this book. There are definitely some aspects of it that don't hold together well as a modern reader, but considering both the time period it was written in and the fact that it was written by a male author, I'm somewhat impressed by how sympathetic Hawthorne portrays Hester Prynne and Dimmesdale's situation.