The title is very suitable for the story because it relates to the story by using the name .
of the main character which is mentioned rapidly.The title is also suitable because the .
word "goodman" means ordinary, undistinguished citizen. The word "young".
relates to the short story because Goodman Brown mentiones that his wife, Faith, and .
him married just three months ago. This tells us that Goodman Brown is not .
particularly old of age.
2. The protagonist is Goodman Brown. Hawthorne does not characterize Goodman Brown by his physical appereance. Goodman Brown, for me, is mostly characterized by the title of the short story and in the beginning of the story during the conversation between him and his wife. The title containd the words "young" and "Goodman" telling me that he must have obviously been not too old of age. He must also be an ordinary undistinguished citizen because "Goodman" means ordinary, undistinguished citizen. .
In the beginning of the story, there is a conversation between Goodman Brown and his wife aptly named Faith. She calles him "dearest heart" and "dear husband" which lets me know that he Goodman Brown must be a very caring and loving husband to his wife Faith and therefore must be a very caring and loving man in general.
However, the fact that Goodman Brown goes into the forest aware of what he is doing and being aware of the fact that this is wrong, makes it difficult for me to fully .
interpret his character. I know that he thinks what he is doing is wrong because he says "Poor little faith", "What a wretch am I to leave her on such an errand!" and "We have been a race of honest men and good Christians since the days of martyrs; and shall I be the first of the name of Brown that ever took this path and kept.".
I think that Nathaniel Hawthorne does not give Goodman Brown a very specific physical description because Hwathorne wants to make his short story more breathtaking and more interesting to the reader by giving the reader a chance to "experiment" with the protagonist's character.
