“Again a Mystic Sister- hood would contumaciously assert itself…had kept cold snow within her bosom throughout life. That unsunned snow in the matron’s bosom…two in common” (pg 78)
Matron and unsunned snow means that a person is pure but doesn’t want to be. What had the unsunned snow in the matron’s bosom and the burning shame on Hester Prynne have in common? Here this is almost an oxymoron because it is saying that she is pure but she has a burning shame on her bosom, the “A”. She cant be both, so I think that Hawthorn is suggesting here that even though she committed the horrible crime that as long as she wears the “A” on her chest, and is able to admit what she did was wrong then she will be pure at heart.
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