Dimmsdale or Chillingworth?

     While reading "The Scarlet Letter" the reader obviously feels sorrow towards both characters, Dimmsdale and Chillingworth. I personally feel more sympathy for Dimmsdale. Although he sinned and he is equally as responsible as Hester for what happened. I developed my sympathy for him because it is clear that he regrets what he has done. He has been torturing himself and is not living a peaceful life. He is in the middle of two boulders, the truth and his position as a minister. I believe if Chillingworth and Hester were truly in love, the situation would not exist. "And thus, while standing on the scaffold, in this vain show of expiation, Mr. Dimmesdale was overcome with a great horror of mind, as if the universe were gazing at a scarlet token on his naked breast, right over his heart(Hawthorne 123)