A character in this story mentions women poisoning their husbands' bedtime drinks as evidence that the whole earth is "one stain of guilt, one mighty blood-spot.
A Herman Melville essay notes that this story's innocuous title is meant to deceive the "super cial skimmer of pages," who fails to see that this story is "deep as Dante." A character in this story mentions women poisoning their husbands' bedtime drinks as evidence that the whole earth is "one stain of guilt, one mighty blood-spot." When its protagonist dies, "no hopeful verse" is carved upon his tombstone because "his dying hour was gloom." While traveling with a man whose black staff resembles a living snake, the title character of this story meets Goody Cloyse and  nds his wife's pink ribbon hanging from a tree branch. The title character and his wife, Faith, are inducted into a Satanic cult in a forest clearing at the climax of, for 10 points, what short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne?
A Herman Melville essay notes that this story's innocuous title is meant to deceive the "super cial skimmer of pages," who fails to see that this story is "deep as Dante."
Young Goodman Brown"