In “Young Goodman Brown”, “A Rose for Emily”, and “The Spiced Chicken Queen”, the authors have used their writing to give the readers a glimpse behind the stereotypes of the narrator’s communities . In “A Rose for Emily”, the narration by the townsfolk shows the reader what happens behind closed doors in the home of a once central and respected family. In “Young Goodman Brown”, seeing the real corruption behind what he believed to be his religious and pious community makes Goodman Brown lose his faith.In “The Spiced Chicken Queen”, the stereotypes of the simple, meek, native Arab woman were proven wrong after a Muslim woman uses the negative stereotypes centered around Muslims to her advantage.
In “A Rose for Emily”, the narration by the townsfolk …show more content…
Goodman Brown, the narrator, lives in Salem, a Puritan town (see: Salem Witch Trials). He belongs to a line of men whom he believes to be devout and righteous, and lives among people who he presumes are just as good. This gives him reason to resist the Devil’s pull. Yet, his view begins to change when he sees the corruption within those whom he describes as his “moral and spiritual advisors” (77). Goody Cloyse, the woman who taught him his catechism “cackled” with the Devil, and mentioned going with the Devil to a “communion” (78). He then overhears his minister and Deacon Gookin, his two other advisors, speaking of going to the same communion, mentioning that others in attendance would be the “Indian powwows” who “know almost as much deviltry as the rest of us” (79). At the Devil’s meeting, he “recognized a score of the church members of Salem village, famous for their special sanctity” and people who were on the “council-board of the province” and “elders of the church” (81). Everyone that he had assumed to be godly was present at the Devil’s meeting. The last straw for Goodman Brown was seeing his sweet wife, Faith, “trembling before the unhallowed altar” (83). The author uses the revealing of the evil, sinning nature of all these religious figures to cast a criticism on the strict, Puritan community, because even the
In “A Rose for Emily”, the narration by the townsfolk …show more content…
Goodman Brown, the narrator, lives in Salem, a Puritan town (see: Salem Witch Trials). He belongs to a line of men whom he believes to be devout and righteous, and lives among people who he presumes are just as good. This gives him reason to resist the Devil’s pull. Yet, his view begins to change when he sees the corruption within those whom he describes as his “moral and spiritual advisors” (77). Goody Cloyse, the woman who taught him his catechism “cackled” with the Devil, and mentioned going with the Devil to a “communion” (78). He then overhears his minister and Deacon Gookin, his two other advisors, speaking of going to the same communion, mentioning that others in attendance would be the “Indian powwows” who “know almost as much deviltry as the rest of us” (79). At the Devil’s meeting, he “recognized a score of the church members of Salem village, famous for their special sanctity” and people who were on the “council-board of the province” and “elders of the church” (81). Everyone that he had assumed to be godly was present at the Devil’s meeting. The last straw for Goodman Brown was seeing his sweet wife, Faith, “trembling before the unhallowed altar” (83). The author uses the revealing of the evil, sinning nature of all these religious figures to cast a criticism on the strict, Puritan community, because even the