Question

7. How are the marital relationships in "A Journey" and "Young Goodman Brown" similar?

Both end in death of one spouse.
Both start out promising and happy.
Both learn terrible things about their spouses.
Both want to end the marriage.
6. What similar role does marriage play in "A Journey" and "Young Goodman Brown"?
Both stories treat marriage as the obstacle to happiness.
Both stories suggest that a marriage cannot work without trust.
Both stories show marriages that survive despite distrust and illness.
Both stories use marriage to show that even love cannot connect us with others.

Answer 1

Both learn terrible things about their spouses.

Both stories suggest that a marriage cannot work without trust.

Step-by-step explanation:

In "A Journey," a woman is travelling in a train with her ill husband. She is not happy in her marriage, but feels bound to him and believes she needs to remain by his side. However, during the journey, she learns something terrible about her husband. She learns that he died, but she is too afraid to let everyone know. In "Young Goodman Brown," Goodman Brown also learns something terrible about his wife Faith. He discovers that she is far from being the innocent saint he believed to have married.

Both of these stories make a commentary about marriage. Although the characters in the stories have some love for their partner and want their relationship to work out, they both struggle to do so because there is no trust between them and their partners. Because of this, the two characters are unable to feel happy in their marriages.

Answer 2

7. Both learn terrible things about their spouses.
6.Both stories suggest that a marriage cannot work without trust.