In the novel The Scarlet Letter, Arthur Dimmesdale is a young Puritan pastor who has committed adultery. While Hester was looked at with scorn for the sin that she had committed, Dimmesdale was greatly respected by the whole community, who were unaware that he had committed the same sin as Hester. The way in which Dimmesdale broke his allegiance to himself, Hester, and his Puritan community can be compared to the way that Kenneth Lay, the CEO of Enron mislead his employees and the Enron stockholders.…
