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Rough Draft Nathaniel Hawthorne in Young Goodman Brown does a good job in characterizing Young Goodman Brown as a character that embodies the disillusionment of the young into senile elders. Young Goodman Brown is fiction and is made up of fictional characters based on stereotypes of 17th Puritans. Though a complex story of one mans life it contains both characters that are flat, stock, and one character in particular that is dynamic yet very mimetic, Young Goodman Brown. As the story starts off young Goodman Brown is shown to be a stereotypical Puritan in the 17th century or a stock character. This is done through indirect characterization. Hawthorne has been noted for his research into the period of time that “Youn