Dialectical Journal 43

the Leech chapter 9 (Pg 104)
A Leech is a worm with suckers at both ends. This is definitely talking about Chillingworth. And the fact that he doesn’t only suck the evil out of people, but the good out of them. He is determined to find who slept with his wife and take the evil right out of the man who did it. But in the process, he intentionally tortures Dimmesdale and pulls every shred of good being in his body out of him just for his own pure enjoyment. Chillinworth is a soul sucker.