This is Earnest Sandeen's interpretation of the Scarlet Letter not as a story about sins and sinners, but about the power of love. Sandeen describes the love shared between Hester and Arthur through the hard ship both individuals would gladly sacrifice for one another.And the fact tha you can see the power of love as they come together to fight for their relatioship. Sandeen describes the suffering of humiliation of wearing the Scarlet Letter by the town's people. And the only reason she endures this suffering, so that her true love would not suffer the same humiliation, or even death at the hands of the town's people. For het to have held this secret for se