Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, The Scrivener” and Nathanial Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” both deal with protagonists who withdraw from life. What similarities and differences do you find in the reasons for their withdrawal, the ways in which they withdraw, and the consequences of their withdrawal?

LINKS TO STORY:
Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, The Scrivener”
http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/LCS/bartleby.pdf
Nathanial Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/younggoodmanbrown.html