Rainsford's first night of the hunt was spent in a big tree. "big tree with a thick trunk and outspread branches. He climbed up into the crotch and, stretching out on one of the broad limbs, after a fashion, rested.
The symbol of Hester's sin, recognizes in her mother's lack of response to her questions that Dimmesdale will not be like her mother; he will not, as Hawthorne urges in the final chapter and as Hester is, "be true" and acknowledge Hester and their child in public.
B. Personification.
Personification is giving human-like characteristics to a non-human object. Such as winter not listening.
He is stubborn but hard working
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