Hawthorne Language is very strange to the eyes of the modern people, but the words he used are so important and so strong. The Scarlet letter is a very dark American past but, not many people see it, nor heard about how rough it was but Nathanial used words that helped us understand the pain back then like Gallows, Meager, & Scaffold. These words when you read them you can see a badness around them but, in Hawthorne’s words you see that these words have a more important in the way he uses them and sets them in sentences.