A Good Man...

exists? (I kid, I kid)

Points:

1. it is rather strange how O'Conner calls who I assume to be the main character by not her name but her station in her family.

2. that she would have been a "good woman" had there been someone to shoot her every day of her life. Interesting because she was really rather sweet to me, except she was the reason her entire family and herself found their deaths.

3. the misfit and the grandmother are both misfits in their own rights. interesting dynamic they have in their conversation in the end.

4. how selfish the grandmother is throughout the entire story. up until her very death she really cared for no one but herself.

Young Goodman Brown

Note #1: Creepy story.

Note #2: Still better than the Poe story.

Note #3: Ok I really only did the note thing so I could make note number one.

As I was saying, I really think this story was creepy but I liked it. It could be because I have a weird attraction to witchy stories since maybe even before I watched "The Craft" but aside from that this was a great exploration of good and evil! Because Brown was such a "good" character it surprised me that he turned out to be so cynical of the world, I would think that he would pray that it was all a dream and go back to living in supposed bliss but alas, the poor chap just couldn't hack it. For the most part I think that many of the happiest people in the world have come to the realization that they are both good and evil. And they understand that about others as well.