![]() ![]() ![]() There, we see her at the age of three and learn that she possesses a "rich and luxuriant beauty a beauty that shone with deep and vivid tints a bright complexion, eyes possessing intensity both of depth and glow, and hair already of a deep, glossy brown and which, in after years, would be nearly akin to black." We learn further that Pearl has a "perfect shape," "vigor," "natural dexterity," and "a native grace," and that in public she is usually dressed in "gorgeous robes which might have extinguished a paler loveliness." The fullest description of Pearl comes in Chapter 6. (Notice that three and seven are "magic" numbers.) She appears as an infant in the first scaffold scene, then at the age of three, and finally at the age of seven. Rather, she is a complicated symbol of an act of love and passion, an act which was also adultery. Pearl is not meant to be a realistic character. ![]()
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