PROMPT / Young Goodman Brown - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Just before the last paragraph in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," the narrator poses an interesting (and perhaps unsettling) question:

"Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest, and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting?"

THINK:
Why do you think Hawthorne would insert this question at the end of the story?
If Goodman Brown's curious experience in the forest had all been a dream, would the story change? HOW?

WRITE:
**Your assignment for next week is to tell us whether you DO or DO NOT think the answer to the narrator's question matters
or makes a difference in this story.
Explain/defend your position.

(Practice using the paragraph structure that we learned in class for this post.)