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//1. Describe// Hester’s source of income.

2. Who has “a gaze that made her heart shrink and shudder, because so familiar, and yet so strange and cold”(70)?

3. Why does Chillingworth say “‘Believe me, Hester, there are few things, --- whether in the outward world, or, to a certain depth in the invisible sphere of thought,--few things from the man, who devotes himself earnestly and unreservedly to the solution of a mystery’”(72)?

4. Why is Hester’s “sin, her ignominy…the roots which she had struck into soil”(75)?

5. At the end of Chapter Five (approximately the last two pages), our narrator discusses several descriptions of eyes. Identify one way eyes are described and then explain what it does to Hester, the scarlet letter and/or the people surrounding Hester.