The scarlet letter? literary analysis?

The style of writing is what is making you uncomfortable. He is condemning Puritan society showing the "holier than thou" townspeople as hypocrites. They are very unforgiving of Hester. The minister is "a pollution and a lie," yet, he is adored by the community. The Puritans were stiff and set in their ways. Anyone who was different in any way was not accepted.