In the book The Scarlet Letter what memories does Hester review during her three hour ordeal?

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While standing on the scaffold, Hester's memories of her infancy, childhood, and the early days of her adulthood are playing through her mind like a movie. "Reminiscences, the most trifling and immaterial, passages of infancy and school-days, sports, childish quarrels, and the little domestic traits of her maiden years, came swarming back upon her". (Hawthorne 56) Hester mutes her situation by reviewing memories of her childhood. However, her memories eventually fade into her present, horrendous situation on the scaffold.

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