Happiness in the Scarlet Letter

In the Scarlet Letter I believe that only Pearl can be truly happy.  I believe this because she is innocent and free from guilt, and as a baby she is described "Whose innocent life had sprung, by the inscrutable decree of providence...out of the rank luxuriance of guilty passion"(173).  I believe that since she has not sinned, and that she was only born into sin, she has a chance of being happy.  One character who is incable of being happy is Dimmsdale, and the reason is that he is being eaten up by the guilt of his sin.  Even from early on in the book we see that he that guilt is devouring him, "Be not silent from any mistaken pity...Than to hide a guilty life."(129) this quote is from the first scaffold seen and it shows us that Dimmsdale is to weak to tell everyone else, but he desperatly wants everyone to know.  Then we have Hester, and she is unable to live a happy life because she is in constant reminder of her shame because of the Scarlet Letter, and her daughter Pearl.  Even though Pearl reminds her of her sin she is also the only source of happieness Hester has, "But she named the infant "Pearl", as being of great price...her mother's only treasure!"(173).  This quote shows that Pearl is the cause of her mothers joy, yet she is also the reason for much of her sadness.  And finally Chillingworth is unable to be happy because is so set on revenge he ends up destroying himself.  When Dimmsdale says "May god forgive the!...Thou, to hast deeply sinned"(513) This shows that since Chillingworth made it his goal to make Dimmsdale miserable not only has he led a life of sin, but in the after life he will probably not get redemtion.