#6
"A
throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray steeple-crowned
hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded"
The description of this group of people is depressing. Very subtly Hawthorn has described a scene of poor people revolting against society. They do so in order to escape a forced religion and suffer greatly, but they succeed. They arrived at what was to be America and were eventually separated into lower and upper class due to the cost of living in an untamed country. Hawthorn has just described poverty in a new town which tells us that the these are hard times for the Puritans but the upper class is sitting quite high and mighty. Since they're puritan though everyone is friendly to each other and there is no conflict between the two. That's where the sinners come in.
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