The tone of The Scarlet Letter is ironic and detached. The narrator doesn’t seem opinionated towards the Puritans, but as the story evolves it becomes more obvious that he knows the problems of the community. The Story starts by stating, “the founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project…” The founders of this new society originally started this new government to create a utopia, however the first things that were built were a cemetery and a prison. It is ironic that their goal was to create a utopia, but the first things built was a place where dead people are buried and a place to condemn