“A Rose for Emily” of William Faulkner and “the Scarlet Letter” of Nathaniel Hawthorne are two treasures of the vast accumulation of American literature, while Emily and Hester Prynne are dazzlingly beautiful among all flowers. Because of the exceptional character traits and miserable life, they have destined to be popular with Chinese and Hesperian scholars: on one hand, they are the victims of male chauvinism; on the other hand, for the sake of true love and better life, they finally degenerated into demon through some rebellions against the tradition. So far, innumerable materials study them respectively, however, there is still plenty of research space to make a combination of them two. Taking this factor into consideration, this thesis will comparatively study on the tragic destiny of these two demonized female——Emily and Hester.
