The Scarlet Letter

Name one of the two reasons Hawthorne suspects that the plant standing outside the prison survived.

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First, the wild rosebush may have just survived as part of the forest that was cut down around it. Secondly, it may have sprung up in the wake of the footsteps of "sainted Ann Hutchinson" as she walked through the doors to the jail.