一、1850年出版的《红字》使纳撒尼尔·霍桑跻身美国伟大作家的行列。他在小说中塑造的女主人公海丝特形象,一百多年来引起了众多评论家的不同阐释,达到了“横看成岭侧成峰,远近高低各不同”艺术效果:有人认为她是“一个道德败坏、行为下流的女人”——犯通奸罪的清教徒、背叛丈夫的妻子、深孚众望的牧师的情人、遭人唾弃的私生子的母亲等等, First, the “Scarlet Letter” published in 1850 brought Nathaniel Hawthorne to the ranks of the great American writers. The heroine Hester’s image, which he shaped in the novel, has aroused many different interpretations of critics for over one hundred years and reached the goal of “seeing as the mountainside and varying distances”. Artistic effect: Some people think She is “an ethnically corrupt and abusive woman” - a Puritan who commits adultery, a wife who betrayed her husband, a lover of a deeply loved pastor, an illegitimate mother who has been cast aside,