The novel is pretty ok, we have a pretty stupid protagonist who we are suppose to root for because the book says so, and we have an amazing antagonist (who in my opinion is the actual hero of the novel) who seeks justice for the plot of the novel. There's a coward of a man who I feel like readers are going to hate, (or like), then there's the girl who's just there. Hester Prynne is stupid for not knowing the rules to the society she lives in, I root for Roger Chillingworth to find the guy who screwed with his wife, and Arthur Dimmisdale is a big coward and doesn't know his rule to society either, then there is Pearl which only matters for literary purposes, other than that, she's just there....