The meteor event is an example of cosmic irony--God or the gods interfere in the events of man in order to manipulate the outcome or send a message of some sort. The meteor shower appears to be in the shape of an A thus reminding Dimmesdale of his sin of Adultery. As transcendentalists denied the existence of God and acknowledged man's instinctive nature as good--this scene would be both an affirmation of the existence of a god and also the acknowledgement of the existence of sinful or immoral behavior--both of which Transcendentalists would deny.
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