Hawthorne as the Spoiler

Ok, Hawthorne is bothering me. He is too specific. He points everything out. In chapter 6, I was willing to let go the awfulness of pointing out that Pearl is the flesh and blood reincarnation of Hester's sin after giving so many hints that could have been just left out there for the reader to figure out. But pointing out how the Devil had snuck into Roger Chillingsworth's soul was too much. Is it not enough that you say, "Ever and anon, too, there came a glare of red light out of his eyes; as if the old man's soul were on fire, and kept on smouldering duskily within his breast, until, by some casual puff of passion, it was blown into a momentary flame." (110). Must you follow it with: "In a word, old Roger Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office" (110)?

So much more enjoyment could be gotten from The Scarlet Letter if only Hawthorne did not spoil it for his readers!