The Scarlet Letter: Final Chapters

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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And so we come to the end of another novel! Join David, Heidi, and Karen as they dig into the ending of Hawthorne’s novel, with special attention paid to Pearl’s role. Plus: how does the genre play into the end of the book, what do we do with Dimmsdale’s demise, and how does Hawthorne want us to respond to their plot to escape? Happy listening!

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0:00.0	Hey there, I'm David Kern.
0:04.3	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.5	I'm Karen Swallow Pryor.
0:07.0	And you are listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Inicurable Reader on which we are discussing Nathaniel
0:12.9	Hawthorne's book The Scarlet Letter.
0:14.1	We're discussing the final chapters.
0:16.0	We're discussing the book as a whole.
0:18.2	And yes, Heidi is back.
0:19.8	Heidi, welcome back.
0:23.6	Thank you. It's good to be back. I promise. Even though I was in Greece, it's good to be back. What's the biggest, what were you most surprised by on this trip?
0:29.9	I don't want this to sound lame, but like the biggest surprise to me is that Greece is really green.
0:35.2	Like it was so, it was a very green and lush country, which I had been there before on vacation
0:42.1	and kind of like the rocky islands and Athens, which is not.
0:46.6	So I was just pleasantly surprised at how, you know, the natural beauty of the place.
0:53.2	Green like England?
0:55.5	Or North Carolina? Maybe not like England, but yeah, I mean, just lots of green cypress trees, trees everywhere, olive trees.
1:03.6	Yeah, Olympia, especially in the middle of the Peloponnese, was just like very, very green.
1:08.5	So, loved it.
1:10.5	Aaron, have you been to Greece? I have not. Sounds like I would love it. I green. So loved it.
1:11.6	Aaron, have you been to Greece?
1:12.8	I have not.
1:14.3	Sounds like I would love it.
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