... evaluate the prejudice against the black race and symbolize it all in one character, Henry Johnson. Stephen Cane's "The Monster" can be related to Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" in that both characters go through transformations. While Goodman Brown's transformation was more spiritual and emotional, Henry Johnson's was more physical and mental. Johnson became the dark truth and the well kept secret of his town ... a stranger who simply put a bag of gold in front of Hadleyburg and watched them corrupt themselves because it was morally labeled DO NOT TOUCH. So far, the past t...

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