Matt's end of book response

A quote that stood out to me was on the last page of the book"As is the dust of the two sleepers had no right to mingle. Yet one tombstone served for both"(241). This quote stood out to me because the whole book revolves around the scarlet letter.  The letter represents many people and it changes meaning throughout the story.  Some people see it differently than others.  the part of the quote about one tombstone standing for 2 people is a representation of the letter.  This is because everyone in the town can share the same tombstone or letter because they all have  sinned in one way or another and are all very similar. This means that everyone in the town basically has a scarlet letter even though it is not visible.  When someone is buried all you can see is the tombstone not there body or anything else.  This is much like the invisible letter.  As i thought about this idea it brought be back to the first day reading when we all wrote our letter and held it up. even though we all had different letters we all could be represented by the idea of having a letter.