What images from chapters 9-15 of The Scarlet Letter are more vivid than those in previous chapters?

From , the image of 's
face getting darker and darker, becoming more "ugly and evil" the longer he lives with
, as though it were "getting sooty with the smoke" of hell is pretty vivid.  To
imagine an older face becoming grizzled and darkening as though with hell's soot is quite a
visual image indeed.

From , the narrator presents the image of
littlecollecting burrs and...