In short stories, I have learned that there is much more than what at*BR* first meets the eye. Almost everything in the story has meaning. All I*BR* have to do is try to find the hints and clues the writer drops and*BR* manage to put them all together. I have to concentrate more than I ever*BR* have so that I can interpret the authors meaning and what he or she*BR* …showed first 75 words of 605 total…

…showed last 75 words of 605 total…yself, I believe it is about Hawthorne himself who*BR* is growing up in a time when many Puritan children are leaving the*BR* Puritan faith. There are many times in the story when he is questioning*BR* his faith by listing the examples of religeous infractions by his*BR* peers. For all this, it is a wonder Hawthorn was not eaten by the*BR* despair and guilt he lets Goodman Brown feel.*BR* *BR*