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Young Goodman Brown Going Home My berth is my haven and the place that I feel the safest and most comfortable at. It is where some(prenominal) good memories and feelings arise and I am able to be myself with no false pretenses. It is my Home Sweet Home yet the stories Young Goodman Brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Soldiers Home, by Ernest Hemingway show a different military position about home going and the effects it has on the main characters. In Hawthornes story, Young Goodman Brown, Goodman Brown ventures on a journey into the timberland and refuses the temptations of the devil. Unfortunately though, throughout the night, Brown finds out more than he perpetually wanted to know about how his fellow Puritan townsmen, including his wife, have betrayed their credence by giving into their dark desires. In utter despair, Goodman Brown returns at dawn to his Salem village staring around him like a bewildered man. (Hawthorne, pg.275) He doesnt believe it is the same place as i t was the night before and he no endless feels at home. Whether his experiences were tangible or not, his faith is gone and he feels as though he is the only pure one. He suffers tremendous guilt and discomfort and trusts no one. His excessive pride is evident when he takes a child remote from a blessing given by Goody Cloyse, his former catechism teacher, as if he were taking the child from the fiend himself. (Hawthorne, pg.276) His distrust and resentment towards his townsmen is observable when he sees his wife, Faith. She is overwhelmed with joy to see him arrive home yet he looked sternly and sadly into her face and passed on without a greeting. (Hawthorne, pg.276) All that he learned in the night was too much for him, and it changed a addicted husband with bright hopes and a wife whom he loved, to a tired, beaten, quizzical and almost faithless man. Harold Krebs in Hemingways Soldiers Home, returns from human be War I to a society that he no longer feels a part of and receives no welcome for his heroic deeds. He resents being home which is largely due to the fact, that during the war he led a very simple lifestyle and upon returning home is thrust choke off into a complicated domestic life. He tries to seek refuge by withdrawing from society and engages himself in individual activities.