The Ambitious Guest
What month is this set in?
September
Where does Goodman Brown live?
Salem Village
How did he feel about Salem?
He was ashamed of them and thought he was cursed by his family.
What is the main character’s name?
Aylmer
When and Where was Nataniel Hawthorne born?
July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts
How old is the daughter in the story?
17
Who does he meet in the forest?
Goody Cloyse
Who were one of his transcendentalist friends?
Ralph Waldo Emerson and/or Henry David Thoreau
What kind of branch of philosophy is this guy in?
Natural
How did Nataniel Hawthorne feel about his ancestors?
He was embarrassed by them
What is the mother’s name in the story?
Esther
Who is Goody Cloyse?
A citizen of Salem Village who reveals herself to be a witch.
What did “The Scarlet Letter” deal with?
Consequences of characters who didn’t follow the rules.
What is this guy’s wife's name?
Georgiana
Who is his famous relative that wasn’t a good person?
John Hathorne
What is the weather in this story like?
Cold, bleak and harsh
What flutters down from the sky?
A pink ribbon
What was his moral?
He puts his characters in moral dilemmas in which s/he has to make a moral decision which leads him to good or evil.
When does Georgiana’s birthmark disappear?
When she blushes
Who did he marry in 1842?
Sophia Peabody
What is one of the themes of this story?
The precariousness of life
What two “Faiths” does Goodman lose?
Religion and Man-kind
What are supernatural forces used for?
When there was a problem.
What does the birthmark symbolize to Aylmer?
Morality & Sin
When did he published his first novel Fanshawe?
1828