The event that described in chapter 2 of The Scarlet Letter occurs after the women of the crowd are introduced was that "The women discuss Hester's sentence." <span>Onlookers reacted to Hester's embroidered letter.</span>
Personification, metaphor, and simile are the main figurative language used in the book. the imagery is describing the journey of Bilbo a young hobbit that was hired by dwarves to be a thief so the can get their gold back.
I think it was when they started the point of telling stories of the witches and what they did with the people it just started to spook them out and they feared that maybe they were honestly true. And I think at that time it really wasn't the best time to stand out and/or say/do something out of their league because they would think you were a witch.
(And we all saw Sleepy Hollow sooo) :)
