... . Brown says that Goody Cloyse taught him the catechism, and then Hawthorne claims that "there was a world of meaning in this simple comment" ("Young Goodman Brown" 451). This quote provides the readers with the following question: Why was Brown's "simple comment" so important? Critic Robert Grayson, Instructor of English at Southeast Missouri State College, answers ... ...

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