This book appeared in the initial stage of American native literature, the so-called American Renaissance. Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville, Thoreau and so on. Are representatives of this period, marking the spiritual independence and literary maturity of the United States.

Nathaniel hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is a great American romantic novel. Its obscure theme, extraordinary form and ingenious literary and artistic techniques have always been the object of literary research. The Scarlet Letter not only touched on a serious and sensitive topic of extramarital affairs at that time, but also touched on controversial and radical feminist thoughts. So writing such a novel is a subversion and challenge to the Christian value judgment at that time.