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"It may serve, let us hope, to symbolize some sweet moral blossom, that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow." (chapter 1, page 46)

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The rosebush was supposed to foreshadow the rest of the book.The roses growing among the rough thorns to create a flower that represents beauty. And although Hester was branded with a letter that shunned her from society, she grew to be a bigger person. Pain assembles a beautiful outcome, you find the beauty within the pain. So, these two symbols relate through the process of pain into beauty. In the Scarlet Letter, Pearl proclaims that she had not been made at all but, had been “plucked by her mother off the bush of wild roses, that grew by the prison-door.” (chapter 8, page 108) The pain that had created Pearl was the affair and the aftermath, but the beauty was Pearl. Red roses symbolize passion, and all Hester has is passion for Dimmesdale. Hawthorne incorporated the rosebush in the book for a reason, connections were supposed to be made between Hester’s passion and nature to the rosebush.

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In chapter 1, page 46, the rosebush by the prison door was kept alive. Many say it was brought in the footsteps of Ann Hutchinson who was a powerful and influential woman of the time. She was not seen that way and was being persecuted just like Hester was going to be. As shown above, "pain assembles a beautiful outcome".

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In chapter 7, page 103, Pearl would not repress from crying for a red rose when she saw the rosebushes. Her wanting the rose represents her drive and also how she wanted to be like her mother.

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El Greco: The Earthly Transfigured

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This article discusses the paintings of an artist named El Greco. In one of his paintings, The Annuniciation, he includes a rosebush in between a man and a woman. This rosebush represents the woman's purity, beauty, and morality. This meaning of the rosebush is relatively similar to the meaning of the rosebush discussed in The Scarlet Letter.