Compare And Contrast A Good Man Is Hard To Find And Young Goodman Brown

Making judgements of others is something many of us often do. It’s almost like a second nature to us. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” it is easy to see that we should not be so quick to judge others.
In “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, a grandmother, her son, her daughter-in-law, and three of her grandchildren are taking a road trip to Florida. The grandma, however, did not want to go to Florida, she wanted to go to Tennessee. When the family got to Georgia, they stopped at Red Sammy’s to get something to eat. O’Connor wrote, ““A good man is hard to find,” Red Sammy said. “Everything is getting terrible. I remember the day you could go off and leave your screen door unlatched.

The kids scream and shout until the dad changed his mind decided they would go. When he turned the car around, the grandma was giving directions and told him to go down a dirt road. They wrecked and rolled a couple of times, but no one was killed. The “misfit”, a man that was on the loose from the local jail, and two other men are the ones who came to the rescue. The family was all sitting in the ditch when they arrived and thought these men would help. When the men got out of the vehicle, they stood on each side of the family and the “Misfit” stood in front. They all had guns. The two men went and looked at the vehicle, they said it would take a little while to fix. The “Misfit” then asked the dad, Bailey, and the grandson, John Wesley, to go to the woods to talk to the other two guys. At the end of the story, the men had shot and killed the whole family and the misfit says, “She would of been a good woman, if it had been someone there to shoot her every minute of her life.” (O'Connor 242). This story shows the family had poor judgement of the men to think they would help them. It shows that you shouldn’t make quick judgements of people because these men they thought were going to be helpful ended up killing

Goody does everything she can to try to get Goodman Brown to stay home. When the companion walking with Goodman Brown arrived, it startled him. When the companion tried to get him to go into the woods, Goodman said, “My father never went into the woods on such an errand, nor his father before him. We have been a race of honest men and good Christians, since the days of martyrs…” (Hawthorne 222).
The men kept walking further into the woods. When Goodman Brown said “…there is my wife, Faith. It would break her dear little heart; and I’d rather break my own!” (Hawthorne 223)
One of the men replied, “Nay if that be the case, e’en go thy ways, Goodman Brown. I would not, for twenty old women like the one hobbling before us, that Faith should come to any harm.” (Hawthorne 223). Trying to manipulate Goodman Brown into hurting his wife. Later in the story Goodman Brown cries, “My Faith is gone! There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name.” This story shows that the devil hid himself good enough to lead Goodman Brown to do all this wrong stuff because he thought that they were good