Hawthorne Post # 2

““That old woman taught me my catechism,” said the young man; and there was a world of meaning in this simple comment.” (Hawthorne 67)

This sentence illustrates Brown’s whole world, as he knew it, being turned upside down. The people who had raised him and taught him how to live his life had not been practicing what they preached. His whole upbringing under the church was all a big hoax put on by people who worship evil. All of Brown’s roll models, growing up, were in fact the opposite of what he had admired them for. Even though Goodman Brown may not have realized it, this statement proves the illegitimacy of his entire life.