Read this excerpt from the beginning of The Scarlet Letter: Those who had before known her, and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, and even startled, to perceive how her beauty shone out, and
made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped.
How does Hawthorne use characterization in this passage to show Hester's strength?

He uses dialogue to describe her

Explanation:

According to the given excerpt from the beginning of The Scarlet Letter, the narrator talks about how everyone was expecting Hester to look dimmed and obscured, but were rather surprised when her beauty shone out.

Hawthorne uses characterization in this passage to show Hester's strength by using dialogue to describe her.

ich statement best shows a problem in travels with charley?

one sharp difficulty presented itself. in the intervening twenty-five years my name had become reasonably well known.

this being so, my trip demanded that i leave my name and my identity at home.

i had to go alone and i had to be self-contained, a kind of casual turtle carrying his house on his back.

with all this in mind i wrote to the head office of a great corporation which manufactures trucks.