Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” and Flannery O’ Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” are both in part about religious belief, though they are of course very different stories. Working with one or both stories, examine what the main characters—Brown, the Misfit, and the grandmother—believe and not believe in. How do these beliefs reflect Hawthorne’s and O’Connor’s own religious beliefs and historical contexts? Are the texts making any direct commentary about religion?
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