The Scarlet Letter: Chapter 1- The Prison-Door

Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers and present it to the reader. It may serve, let us hope, to symbolize some sweet moral blossom, that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow.

The Novel is Intertwined with the Image of the Rosebush Among the Weeds

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The rosebush symbolizes a "sweet moral blossom." Hawthorne foreshadows that the ending of the novel will be sorrowful. Yet, the rosebush offers hope that even though the ending is sad, there is some good message to be learned from the suffering.

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