The Scarlet Letter

What does sunlight represent in chapters 16- 18?

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THe sunlight represents warmth, change and rebirth. Finally Hester casts off the darkness of her shame (scarlet letter) and Dimmesdale, Pearl and Hester become a family under God's true light.

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