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ar from her parental home, the scenes of hometown were foreign to her. The connection between Hester and her relative in England seemed to have broken off. She often memorized that ‘her father’s face, with its bald brow and reverend white beard…her mother’s too, with the look of heedful and anxious love’(Nathaniel, Hawthorne.1996: 27). Children will naturally recollect parents’ affection and happy moments spent together with relatives or friends, but then ,she hadn’t .she was a lonely child deserted by her parents.
    Hester is a woman in need of consolation from her lover-Dimmesdale. When she came to Boston alone, for a single woman, she fell lonely. Then she met the minister-Dimmesdale. They were fall in love each other, but this action was not allowed by the Puritan. They incarcerated Hester and she must wear the scarlet letter “A” on her bosom, the scarlet letter “A” symbolic meaning is “Adultery”.
    Hester lived in the seclusion on the outskirts of the town, in all her intercourse with society, there was nothing that made she feel as if she belonged to it. Every gesture, every word, and even the silence of those with whom she came in contact, implied, and often expressed, that she was banished and as much alone as if she inhabited another sphere, or communicated with the common nature by other organs and senses than the rest of human kind. Hester sometimes burst into passionate tears, since she has heart-smitten at the bewildering and confusing spell that so often came between Hester and her beloved daughter. Little Pearl was all her world, but there existed mental distance between the mother and her daughter. ‘sometimes, once in many days, or perchance in many months, she felt an eye-a human eye-upon the ignominious brand that seemed to give a momentary relief, as if half of her agony were shared’(Nathaniel, Hawthorne.1996: 32). The daydreaming indicated that Hester had hoped that her lover could to comfort her and therefore she would be relieved from the state of loneliness for the time being.
B. Chillingworth’s Lonely Revenge-Seeker
    Roger Chillingworth was an abandoned husband by his wife. He was an old and lonely scholar in England dehumanized by a life abstruse studying. His twisted, stooped, deformed shoulders mirror his distorted soul. He ignored his wife for most of the time. He made a mistake of marrying a young and beautiful wife, who had an impulsive and passionate nature. For Hester, marriage was not a sacramental union if the couples did not love each other. She considered her marriage with Chillingworth as invalid, for she reminded him, ‘I felt no love (for you), nor feigned any’.  Husband did not deserve true love from his wife and he was destined it live through a lonely married life. In view of the striking different between Chillingworth and Hester, their union can be regarded as unnatural relationships of age and youth, deformity and youth, and a studious mind and a passionate nature. When Hester came to Boston alone and she fell in love with Arthur Dimmesdale, which resulted in adultery. From then on, Roger Chillingworth was totally abandoned by his young and passionate wife.
Roger Chillingworth was an unapproachable stranger to little Pear. Pearl, the daughter of Hester and Dimmesdale, is often defined by many critics as the sin child, the unholy result of Hester’s and Arthur Dimmesdale fall from grace. Pearl’s existence brought humili