... warm themes and meaningful morals. His short story "The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg" showed his ability to expose the negativity of human frailty, but at the same time make it funny. In "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg", people who claim they are innocents are put to the test when a stranger gets into the smug regions of the town's minds by using their own vanity against them. The foreshadowing of the incorruptible town's downfall can be found in it's motto ... client and the state of New Hampshire free from the devil. So why were Young Goodman Brown, the town of Whitomville, and th...

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