The Scarlet Letter
Chapter Eighteen
Entry Forty-Eight
Hawthorne's position is: Yes, it is Hester's fault that Pearl can't find a way to return to her mother. Dimmesdale also realizes that. He says that the stream is a borderline between two worlds that will never meet again. Pearl sees that obviously her mother changed: Her pervious, familiar features faded, and instead happiness and joy appeared, emotions that Pearl does not know from her mother. She looks at her mother, Dimmesdale and then at both to find out what the reason is for the change. I think the relation between Dimmesdale and Hester became so strong during the past minutes that Pearl is able to feel it from the other side of the brook.
Yes, she doesn't understand what is going on and why.
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