What is Roger Chillingworth's salvation in The Scarlet Letter?

Using the
literary meaning of the word salvation,

a.
Preservation or deliverance from destruction, difficulty, or evil.

b. A source, means, or cause of such preservation or
deliverance.

it is then safe to assume that, in the
case of , his salvation correlates to any opportunity or event that would have helped him to
move away from the constant cycle of anger, revenge, and spite that was, literally, eating away
his body and soul. His anger, which stems from feeling cuckolded by , and his sense of revenge
against Dimmesdale has brought upon Chillingworth a perennial evilthat is detectable even in his
appearance. So abrasive is his presence that even the townspeople begin to suspect something
almost weird and otherworldly in him. No longer can he ever attempt to look like an older, and
philosophical physician. His anger has transformed him dramatically

(he) had altogether vanished, and been succeeded by a eager,
searching, almost fierce, yet carefully guarded look.

That Chillingworth would

mask this
expression with a smile, but the latter played him false, and flickered over his visage so
derisively that the spectator could see his
blackness all the better for it.

Shortly after Dimmesdale's death, however, Chillingworth realizes that he has
basically dedicated his entire elder existence to the destruction of another man. All the
essence of his soul sort of dies with Dimmesdale and Chillingworth realizes that, like his
rival, his own life will come to an end quite soon.

 

Hence, his salvation is defined by the moment when he really looks back and chooses
to transform his actions to that he can be moved away from evil. The way that he does this is by
leaving all of his riches and possessions to the most unlikely character: the very child born
from the indiscreet relationship between Hester and : .

So Pearl--the elf-child,--the demon offspring, as some people, up to that epoch,
persisted in considering her--became the richest heiress of her day, in the New World.

This completes the circle: Pearl's new status allows her to take
care of Hester who, in turn, can also benefit from her daughter's social respectability. In all,
Roger Chillingworth's leaving his fortune to Pearl is a way of paying back for all the pain and
suffering that he may have caused Hester. Giving support for Pearl may have been his way of
blessing and forgiving the adultery between Hester and Dimmesdale. However, there is always room
to wonder whether Chillingworth's own guilt and fear of going to Hades on his death bed are
behind his motivations to be kind.