'on the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A. It was so artistically done.... had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore.'
'Her attire, which, indeed, she had wrought for the occasion, in prison, and had modeled much after her own fancy, seemed to express the attitude of her spirit, the desperate recklessness of her mood, by its wild and picturesque peculiarity.'
The letter A symbolizes the wildness of her character which refers back to the wild rose which is also red like the letter. The wild roses that surrounds and somewhat refurbishes the decaying jail is one of the first things they see as they enter. The letter A is the one of the first things people notice when Hester Prynne walks towards the crowd.
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