How does Hester suffer in The Scarlet Letter?

First, Hester suffers because she cannot be with the man she loves, Reverend Dimmesdale.  She will not tell the ministers in town who her fellow sinner was, and Dimmesdale is too cowardly to confess his sin openly until the very end of the novel, right before he dies.  Second, Hester suffers as a result of her guilt.  She feels guilty about committing an act that turns her once peaceful and kindly husband, now called Chillingworth,...

First, Hester suffers because she cannot be with the man she loves, Reverend Dimmesdale.  She will not tell the ministers in town who her fellow sinner was, and Dimmesdale is too cowardly to confess his sin openly until the very end of the novel, right before he dies.  Second, Hester suffers as a result of her guilt.  She feels guilty about committing an act that turns her once peaceful and kindly husband, now called Chillingworth, into a devil hell-bent on revenge.  She also feels guilty about not telling Dimmesdale—at least, for a long time—that Chillingworth is her husband; she watches for years as Dimmesdale gets more and more sickly under Chillingworth's care, but she does not reveal his identity to Dimmesdale until they meet in the forest, some seven years after their initial "sin."  Third, Hester's daughter, Pearl, constantly does things that hurt Hester: she flings flowers at Hester's scarlet "A," and she dances each time she hits it; she also decorates her own breast with grass in the shape of an "A" and so forth.  Hester also knows that her own sin taints her daughter's life, and this causes her to suffer as well.