[E. Pluribus Unum]

I remember reading a similar short story in English class when I was in high school.

[Third Person]

It’s a story as old as man himself

[jonrick46]

Was your high school English literature study on the Scarlet Letter? Hawthorn saw a dichotomy between man's social fabrications, represented by religion, and the spiritual realm of the natural world. Your comparison of Arthur Dimmesdale to Cruz's situation is brilliant. Dimmesdale represents the faulty fabrications of man that prevents him from fulfilling the true good and beautiful realm of the natural world represented by Hester Prynne. Cruz has made lots of fabrications, don't you agree?