The chapter you want to refer to in order to answer this
question is Chapter Sixteen, which describes a walk that Hester and her daughter take
into the forest, and how they sit next to the babbling brook. It is important to realise
that while the text asserts a comparison between Pearl and the brook, it also points out
that there are a number of differences between them as to behavior as shown in the
following paragraph:
Pearl resembled the brook, inasmuch as the
current of her life gushed from a wellspring as mysterious, and had flowed through
scenes shadowed as heavily with gloom. But, unlike the little stream, she danced and
sparkled, and prattled airily along her
course.
Thus we can see that
the brook and Pearl are compared in the way that they both come from obscure origins and
have seen much "gloom" and darkness in their lives. However, the central difference
between them is that Pearl is not overshadowed by this darkness, and is able to "dance
and sparkle," in contrast to the sombre brook that Pearl finds to be "foolish and
tiresome" because of its sadness.
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