Literary Mixtape: Hester Prynne

If you’ve ever wondered what your favorite literary characters might be listening to while they save the world/contemplate existence/get into trouble, or hallucinated a soundtrack to go along with your favorite novels, well, us too. But wonder no more! Here, we sneak a look at the hypothetical iPods of some of literature’s most interesting characters.

Hester Prynne is a complicated mix of the sexually liberated and the societally tethered – her character is the place where the sinful and the holy meet. Accordingly, we think she’d listen to strong female-type music and sad, remorseful tracks in equal measure, with some sexy jams in there too.

Check out Hester's mixtape at Flavorwire. Most appropriate track? “Accidentally Like A Martyr” - by Warren Zevon. It happens to be one of my favourites too.