One of America’s greatest writers, Nathaniel Hawthorne, wrote on many philosophical issues that he viewed during his own time. It is quite ironic that he wrote his works hundreds of years ago, and the issues that plagues mankind then, still plague mankind today. In the opening chapter of The Scarlet Letter the narrator says: "A writer of story-books! What kind of a business in life,—what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to …showed first 75 words of 1357 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1357 total…human. In conclusion, Hawthorne uses his literary gifts to make the world see that people are not perfect. They may come close in many areas, and may even have a single quirk that keeps them from attaining perfection, but by their nature, that quick will be apparent and prove their true nature as creatures of imperfection. We are born with imperfection, and by no means that we can conceive of, can we remove that imperfection.