The quote that sticks out most to me, begins at the top of pg. 53 with "Had there been a papist among the crowd..." and ending with, "whose infant was to redeem the world." This sticks out to me not only because its almost the complete opposite, but also because at a more symbolic level its true. Here Hawthorne is stating that Hester and her child looks like Mary and Jesus, a beautiful woman with a fatherless child, which on the symbolic level is true. Here Hester is supposed to be one of the most beautiful women in Boston, and when you think about it, not naming her lover does leave the child fatherless. This quote is also opposite the idea of the Madonna in the sense that, this child was conceived in sin. It wasn't a divine creation to save the world, just a child conceived in a sinful passion, which later condemned Hester.