How is the quote below significant from "The Scarlet Letter"? It is inconceivable, the agony with which this public veneration tortured him! it was his...

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suggests Arhturrealizes his own hypocrisy.He has done his utmost to be a good minister, but is a
fraud in his own mind. The list of items Hawthorne enumerates suggests all the good works Arthur
has done, but all are undermined by his unlawful union with . Interestingly, Arthur's hypocrisy
is the lesser of others found in the novel, perhaps because he acknowledges it and therefore
struggles with what to do with it; this again suggests how virtuous he truly is ("..genuine
impulse to adore the truth..")