Chillingworth or Dimmesdale?

      We are reading the amazing "The Scarlet Letter". Throughout the story we are introduced to many characters. Hester, Chillingworth and Dimsdale. I think I would be more sympathetic to Dimmsdale, because Hester was very lonely and they were in love. Even though he is a priest, and he is supposed to be "holy", no one can escape love. Throughout the story he is suffering for seven years, because of this one mistake. He can not even see his daughter, because he has to keep his reputation. On the other hand, Chillingworth who is supposedly Hester's "husband" does not need any sympathy, because they were not in love, he left her. What did he expect?
   "Hester Prynne was now fully sensible of the deep injury for which she was responsible to this unhappy man, in permitting him to lie for so many years, or, indeed, for a single moment, at the mercy of one, whose purposes could not be other than malevolent"(Hawthorne 315). This quote explains everything. Hester let Dimmesdale suffer for seven years. She did not tell him the truth about Chillingworth, who had been torturing him. Even though Dimmesdale is a sinner, he payed his debt. He engraved a scarlet A on his chest, give the man a break. He was in love with a girl who was "married".