"With the same hard demeanor, she was led back to prison, and vanished from the pubic gaze within its iron-clamped portal. It was whispered, by those who peered afteer her, that the scarlet letter threw a lurid gleam along the dark passageway of the interior"
I think the author wrote the scarlet letted "threw a lurid gleam" for 2 purposes:
1. It's a symbol that Hester would be always labeled with the sin of adultery by the public. When she immerged in the darkness of the prison, only the scarlet letter "gleamed". It created an effect that the person, Hester Prynn, had disappeared, what left about Hester Prynn was the sin of adultery.
2. The gleaming scarlet letter is foreshadowing something. It infers that there might be some change to the scarlet letter. The red "A" perhaps would not no longer stand for "adultery" but something honor.
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