Let's talk about The Scarlet Letter

And I think the hope is to start students with books like this and like The Great Gatsby, which I think is a brilliant book, but is also pretty heavy-handed with the symbolism.

Like I said before, even though this is a book about a puritanical society, I saw a lot of modern, a lot of enduring messages in this book. A lot of things about the inherently flawed nature of people and what happens when we live in denial of that fact. And because of those messages, this book really got my wheels turning.