... Two stories that illustrate a young man coping with the idea of evil existing within mankind are Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Child by Tiger" by Thomas Wolfe. The protagonists of each story, Young Goodman Brown and Spangler, confront evil first hand, but deal with it in different ways. Both ... meets the devil, he notices everyone, including his wife, family, and churchmen, are all corrupted by the devil himself. Whether or not Brown's journey into the woods was a dream, it had a significant psychological impact. He is now distrustful and views everyone as evil....

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