Nina examined the text and using the analytic framework we have been discussing identified textual areas that evidenced the motifs of illusion vs reality. We related this motif to the ongoing dichotomy between who people are and who they appear to be, especially as it relates to Dimmesdale and Chillingworth. Keeping in mind the analytical. significance of the wilderness vs town conflict, we then noted how Arthur Dimmesdale experiences a transformational moment while in the forest with Hester and returns to town as a new man with a new identity. We discussed his almost perverse desire to morally offend the people he encounters as evidence of his bitter recognition that despite his vocation as a Puritan clergyman, sin is universal , yet remains hidden or disguised in most people. Last, we continued discussing and editing Nina's college essay for St Andrews.