Entry 32:
"A light gleamed far and wide over the muffled sky."
At first, when it was only Dimmesdale, 'clouds muffled the whole expanse of sky from zenith to horizon'(pg129), but after Hester and Pearl had taken their place back on the scaffold, and Dimmesdale decided when to show the world their secret the sky lit up.
"And there stood the minister, with his hand over his heart; and Hester Prynne, with the embroidered letter glimmering on her bosom and little Pearl, herself as a symbol, and the connecting link between the two...is if it were the light that is to reveal all secrets, and the daybreak that shall unite all who belong to one another."
Both Dimmesdale and Hester have A's that represent their shame. Pearl is the link between their shame, and who is the symbol of it. The light shows truth and for the first time, them as a family are shown together in it even though no one else is there to see it.
The meteor in the sky is the symbol of them as a family? Does the meteor "A" stand for absolution - as a sign that perhaps the only way that they all can be saved in through the admittance of the family out in the light.
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