This chapter is to introduce Roger Chillingworth to the readers. It's also give information on the relationship between Chillingworth and Dimmesdale. Chillingworth was admired throughout the town, because he was the only skilled doctor. He was a religious man and took great interest in Dimmesdale's preaching. The Minister became sick, and the sickness only worsened. Chillingworth had offered to help him, but he generousily refused his help. It got to the point where everyone began to suspect the Minister of being suicidal. The puritans began to believe that the arrival of Chillingworth was God's way of sending aid to the sickly Minister. With the minister's refusal the puritans thought of his rejection as a sin. That's when Dimmesdale finally gave into the offer.
Roger Chillingworth became his medical advisor and the two ended up spending a lot of time together. The Minister was fascinated with the clergyman's way of thinking. Soon they started to live together so that Chillingworth could observe every aspect of the Minister's life and determine his illness. The name of this chapter is The Leech for a reason. A leech sticks to a person and sucks their blood. It's a metaphor for Roger Chillingworth.
One day Roger Chillingworth found plants growing near an unmark tombstone and told Dimmesdale that it was an indicator of the wrong-doings of a sinner who never confessed:
“They are new to me. I found them growing on a grave, which bore no tombstone, nor other memorial of the dead man, save these ugly weeds that have taken upon themselves to keep him in remembrance. They grew out of his heart, and typify, it may be, some hideous secret that was buried with him, and which he had done better to confess during his lifetime.”-Hawthorne
The Minister was taken back but soon defended the "dead sinner", which led the Chillingworth suspicious to why the Minister quickly came to defense. They begin to have a argument for this dead sinner. It became a metaphoric conversastion.
Roger Chillingworth became his medical advisor and the two ended up spending a lot of time together. The Minister was fascinated with the clergyman's way of thinking. Soon they started to live together so that Chillingworth could observe every aspect of the Minister's life and determine his illness. The name of this chapter is The Leech for a reason. A leech sticks to a person and sucks their blood. It's a metaphor for Roger Chillingworth.
One day Roger Chillingworth found plants growing near an unmark tombstone and told Dimmesdale that it was an indicator of the wrong-doings of a sinner who never confessed:
“They are new to me. I found them growing on a grave, which bore no tombstone, nor other memorial of the dead man, save these ugly weeds that have taken upon themselves to keep him in remembrance. They grew out of his heart, and typify, it may be, some hideous secret that was buried with him, and which he had done better to confess during his lifetime.”-Hawthorne
The Minister was taken back but soon defended the "dead sinner", which led the Chillingworth suspicious to why the Minister quickly came to defense. They begin to have a argument for this dead sinner. It became a metaphoric conversastion.
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