"Scarlet Letter"

      Dimmsdale is a very odd character in the "Scarlet Letter" that I feel sympathy for. He was mysterious in the beginning of the story,  but began to branch out as it came to the end. Dimmsdale had made one mistake which was the same as Hesters, and even though she was the one shunned from the community, Dimmsdale was the one in pain. Chillingworth knew who he was, and made him suffer for seven years. "All this was accomplished with a subtlety so perfect, that the minister, though he had constantly a dim perception of some evil influence watching over him, could never gain a knowledge of its actual nature" (Hawthorne 117). This proves that poor Dimmsdale was tortured and basically hunted by evil.