Does Hester feel close to Author?

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Hester didn't have time to think of the effects of Chillingworth's plan before the procession started. Dimmesdale appears in very good shape, with more energy and purpose than he has seen in a while. Dimmesdale seemed very remote to Hester. Pearl and Mistress Hibbens are aware that he seems a different man from the one they have known. Dimmesdale's sermon is full of feelings of sorrow and suffering. While Dimmesdale is speaking, Pearl is dancing around the square and the shipmaster gives her a gold chain and a message for her mother that the doctor will be bringing Dimmesdale so she needn't worry about him. The strangers in town were very fascinated with Hester and her scarlet letter, and even the townspeople who are used to it seem interested again. The letter causes Hester more pain on that day, when she is so close to removing it forever, than it has since the first day she was made to wear it.