The Scarlet Letter: Chapter by Chapter Review and Analysis I found this one page introductory chapter to be very dramatic as it explained the history of the colony by telling the history of the prison-door. From the looks of this chapter, this story will probably be dragged out as much as possible. At first I thought the way Nathaniel Hawthorne approached the latter half of the last paragraph was annoying, but when I read the chapter the second time, it appealed to me. The relationship that Hawthorne is attempting to establish with the reader in this paragraph is very interesting. That pink highlighted sect