Abeka American Literature Test 12 Practice

In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne’s husband is Roger Chillingworth, a physician who travels to Boston with her and takes on the role of her husband in disguise. He’s not the minister Dimmesdale, not their daughter Pearl, and not Hester herself. The name Chillingworth identifies him, and his presence as her husband ties into his later role as a physician who uses his position to search for and torment Dimmesdale.