Describe Hawthorne's use of figurative language and sentence structure in chapter 2 of The Scarlet Letter.

Hawthorne's sentence
structure is characteristically complex and/or compound.  He typically employs a profusion of
dependent clauses to explicitly describe his subjects, scenes, or symbols.  His treatment of
these in this chapter, "The Market-Place," is typical of his writing.

Figuratively, he uses two allusions that help to characterize both the women of the
town as well as.  First, he says that the Puritan women in Boston were very similar to the
"man-like Elizabeth," by whom he means Queen Elizabeth I, a monarch who refused to
marry and maintained...