Why does hester come to dread children according to the passage from chapter 5 of the scarlet letter?
She grew to have a dread of children for they had imbibed from their parents a vague idea of so
mething horrible in this dreary woman gliding silent through the town with never any companion but one only child. Therefore first allowing her to pass they pursued her at a distance with shrill cries and the utterance of a word that had no distinct purport to their own minds but was none the less terrible to her as proceeding from the lips that babbled it unconsciously