From both stories, the beginning motif of the character to the end turns out differently. The endings have the main character to think about their past, and how the specific event affected the rest of their lives. From Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story Young Goodman Brown, to Edgar Allan Poe’s story The Cask of Amontillado, one can find that from these stories, the main character finds guilt in themselves, feeling apart at the end, and have learned the lesson of not trusting anyone. Guilt occurs in the actions you take.
Hawthorne makes Goodman Brown do the wrong, giving him a feeling of guilt. “He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow