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The Devil Quotes From Young Goodman Brown

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This particular quote from Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne is placed right in the middle of the story but it arguably summarizes the whole meaning of this short story. The Devil delivers this quote to Goodman Brown after Brown speaks on the dignity and reputation of his father and grandfather. To the average person, family is the closest people in their lives, therefore they trust and respect them the most of anyone. The Devil goes on to expose a majority of the honorable members of their society, but this one in particular showed the extreme of the situation for Brown. This quote hits him personally as the Devil reveals that both the father and grandfather of Goodman Brown, who he looks so prideful upon, had previously been assisted by and

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