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Hester bade little Pearl run down to the margin of the water, and play with the shells and tangled seaweed, until she should have talked awhile with yonder gatherer of herbs. So the child flew away like a bird, and, making bare her small white feet, went pattering along the moist margin of the sea. Here and there she came to a full stop, and peeped curiously into a pool, left by the retiring tide as a mirror for Pearl to see her face in. Forth peeped at her, out of the pool, with dark, glistening curls around her head, and an elf-smile in her eyes, the image of a little maid, whom Pearl, having no other playmate, invited to take her hand and run a race with her. But the visionary little maid, on her part, beckoned likewise, as if to say—"This is a better place! Come thou into the pool!" And Pearl, stepping in, mid-leg deep, beheld her own white feet at the bottom; while, out of a still lower depth, came the gleam of a kind of fragmentary smile, floating to and fro in the agitated water. 去书内
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    It presents a vivid and tender scene of Pearl’s innocence and freedom. The simile “flew away like a bird” and the detailed description of her “small white feet” pattering along the sea margin vividly depict Pearl as a lively, unrestrained child. In contrast to the rigid, judgmental Puritan society, Pearl’s natural behavior symbolizes purity and vitality, offering a moment of warmth and beauty in the otherwise oppressive narrative. It also highlights Hester’s attempt to find moments of normalcy and connection amidst their marginalized lives.

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