Hester does not object by wearing the embroidered A or standing on the scaffold, she accepts that because of her sin she must be punished. Hester could easily share the punishment with Dimmsdale but she refuses to reveal her name. Hester was very accepting of her punishment, “never fought with the public, but submitted without complaint to its worst use; he made no demand for it in exchange for what he suffered; it did not weigh on his sympathies” (132). Hester wants no sympathy for her sin and always lets the audience think the worst of her. His acceptance of punishment for his sin is shown a lot throughout the novel. When Hester first committed the crime of adultery, she was despised. Throughout the novel many people change their opinions and views of her. Hawthorne states: “none so devoted to herself as Hester when plague infested the city… Hester's nature showed itself warm and rich: a fountain of human tenderness, unfailing to every royal request and inexhaustible to the greatest. Her breast, with its mark of shame, was but the softest pillow for the head that needed it”(). Hester was there for those who needed her. Even if he was someone who shunned her for her crime and thought she deserved a bigger punishment. Hester accepts the fact that she has committed a crime, but does not let on