Reverend Hale has come to Salem to provide some help or insight into the problem of the perceived possession of the girls. He enters as a learned individual, a man of letters and someone who has the credibility as both a trained professional and outsider into the town's issues. Hale is zealous about his "first call," and Miller describes him as such: "His painfully acquired armory of symptoms, catchwords, and diagnostic procedures is now...
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