The Question and Answer section for Young Goodman Brown and Other Hawthorne Short Stories is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Foreboding Setting:
He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind. It was all as lonely as could be; and there is this...
A watchman watches from a steeple what's going on in the world. This would be Victorian era.
Many of Hawthorne's short stories blur the lines between the supernatural and reality, as the characters often experience dream-like events.
One example of this blurred distinction occurs in "Young Goodman Brown". It is unclear whether the witch...
