ASAP Use the highlighter to cite evidence in support of the analysis of Dimmesdale as fearful. Such was the young man whom the Reverend Mr. Wilson and the Governor had introduced so openly to the public notice, bidding him speak, in the hearing of all men, to that mystery of a woman's soul, so sacred even in its pollution. The trying nature of his position drove the blood from his cheek, and made his lips tremulous. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne