... this paper, Leeb discussed a common "yarn" that presented itself in Young Goodman Brown, The Man that Corrupted Hadleyberg, Monster, and The Devil and Daniel Webster. He writes that "It is truly curious that four stories, which at first glance seem more remarkable for their dissimilarity than anything else.... -should ... conflicts could have been avoided if the characters told, faced, and dealt with the truth. In Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster", the main character, Daniel Webster of course, is a lawyer whose job deals with facing the truth everyday. This ability ...

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