Most of Hawthorne’s critics feel as if “Young Goodman Brown” one of his best works. In my opinion D.C. McKeithan chooses to interpret Hawthorne’s tale by using an example of a man who is saddened into distrust by the sins of the people surrounding him. He is made skeptical and untrusting of others because of his own contributes into sin. McKeithan goes around this by mainly seeing that while there are a bunch of different interpretations, past critics have failed to realize some of the most apparent parts of the story. McKeithan blames critics of falling into the same mistake as Hawthorne’s protagonist, that is, of seeing things where there is nothing to be seen. He furthers his statement by proclaiming that those who Brown came to into spite
