's internal
conflict has always been "confessing versus not confessing". As early as , "The
Interior of a Heart," we learn that, while Dimmesdale tries very hard to come to terms with
his cowardice, he has also tried to fit his truth, somehow. The problem is that the villagers
are blind followers, as such, they will follow their extremely beloved Dimmesdale regardless of
what he says to them. They have adopted him as their "young divine." They also treat
him as some sort of preternatural being. Therefore, no matter how subtlety Dimmesdale tries to
accommodate the fact that it was he who impregnated the pariah of the Puritans, , his comments
will fall on deaf ears.
He had told his hearers that he
was altogether vile, a viler...
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