Throught them all, giving up her individuality, she would become the general symbol at which the preacher and moralist might point..."
This is saying that she is now the symbol of all sin. Everyone is now going to look at her and thats what they would not do. She is ashamed of what she has done, but cannot do anything about it.
She is the symbol of sin for the colony. Yep, just like people become symbols of things in their communities. Unfortunately this makes her an outsider.
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