The document outlines a peer's post discussing the role of female characters in three short stories: 'Young Goodman Brown,' 'The Birthmark,' and 'The Minister's Black Veil.' It highlights how each female character influences the male protagonists’ perceptions and actions, ultimately leading to significant life lessons for them. The response to the post is expected to extend this discussion by examining the similarities among these women and their impact on the male characters.

1. Write a response to a peer's post that adds or extends to the
discussion point of your peer by Friday 07/24/2020.
This week's discussion prompt:
Explain how Faith in "Young Goodman Brown," Georgiana in
"The Birthmark," and Elizabeth in "The Black Minister's Veil"
are use to reveal some truth about the central male characters in
each story. Describe the similarities that you see among these
women characters.
Peer's Post:
-Emily Seide
In each of the three short stories, the female characters play a
large role in the character development of the three male
protagonists (Goodman, Aylmer, and Hooper). Throughout each
story, the women leave a lasting impact on their significant
other’s mentality of the world and perception of others. In
“Young Goodman Brown”, Brown is faced with troubling sights
that make him alter his point of view on his town and the
townspeople. Brown was introduced to the true form of some
nasty people, including his wife, Faith. When he returns home
the next morning from a place of sinister evil, his encounter
with Faith and his townspeople has made him a hardcore skeptic
of anyone and everyone around him. Goodman Brown never
trusted a soul after that night because he was forced to believe
that evil resides in everyone. In “The Birthmark”, Aylmer goes
insane trying to remove his wife, Georgiana’s, birthmark. Even
after hearing how beautiful and well liked she is, Georgiana
agrees to get her birthmark removed. Rather than seeing this as

2. a perfect part of her, Aylmer sees the birthmark as a flaw that
gives her an imperfect complexion. Later in the story, as the
birthmark fades and she wakes up, she states that he should’ve
admired what he had in the first place, then dies. This made
Aylmer realize that he took time for granted, and now he lives a
life without Georgiana due to his impatience with her already
beautiful complexion. And finally, in “The Minister’s Black
Veil”, Reverend Hooper consistently wears a black veil that
covers the majority of his face. Several people were afraid and
intimidated by it, except for his fiancée, Elizabeth. After further
questioning, she begins to fear the veil due to what it
symbolizes- the sin in all human beings. Hooper’s plea for
Elizabeth to stay reveals the extent of which he is willing to
sacrifice, and the decision for him to continue to wear the veil
reveals great sorrow; “Do not leave me in this miserable
obscurity forever!” (Hawthorne, 36). In each of the short
stories, each female character, always a love interest, is first
skeptical of the main character’s choice of actions, then later
comply. In each short story, a life lesson is learned for each
male character.
Readings are attached!