Roger Chillingworth is very vengeful character. I find it interesting that he basically invested his life to finding out who sinned with Hester Prynne. He lost his own actual identity to the fake person he created in order to investigate. It is shocking how much he put into finding out who was the sinner; he made it his life goal. I find that his thinking and his actions are very despicable and low. Chillingworth was not heard from for two years; if someone went missing today, there would be an entire investigation of the disappearance and after two years have gone by the person would probably be considered dead.
I almost feel like what did he expect to find when he came for Hester, her knitting in a chair still waiting for him to show up on her doorstep? It is a little far-fetched for her to stick around for him, at some point she was going to have to move on with her life anyway. I think it is a waste to have stopped her life for that long in wait of him, even though she may have gone about the moving on part a little wrong.
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