Comparing Young Goodman Brown to A Good Man is Hard to Find
... Young Goodman Brown? ... A Good Man is Hard to Find? ... Young Goodman Brown? ... In this story you meet young Goodman Brown when he is saying good-bye to his wife Faith. ... Brown starts his journey by heading into the woods, where he meets a devilish looking man who is approaching his mid fifties. This man tries to get Goodman Brown to follow him into the woods with the temptations of evil. Goodman Brown tells the devilish man ? ... exclaimed the Goodman, unconsciously resuming his walk. ... We have been a race of honest men and good Christians since the days of the martyrs; and shall I be the first of the name of brown that ever took this path and kept? ... (Hawthorne,133) In This quote Hawthorne tries to tell the reader that Brown?s family are good Christians and good people in general.