Goodman and Arnold Friend

The story Goodman is hard to find was an interesting story. The story is sort of tragic and surprising. The story has Gothic elements like the scary and remote forest and a plantation with a sliding and secret passage. The end of the story marks the tragic fate of the family who left home but never could reach their destination. They just took a turn and got side tracked with the old womens stories and fantasies and they had to die at the hands of the escapee of the prison and his goons. Along the stories we find the links to slavery and old deserted plantations and the changes that had taken over during the old womans lifetime.
"Where have you been , Where have you gone" is another story that we read in class. This is unusual among all the stories we read so far in the semester in a sense that the terror is more psychological rather than physical. The protagonist is a young woman who is discovering her sexuality and had her first stalker.Arnold Friend is no friend of hers but a character that is troubling her. She wants to explore her sexuality but things are happening too fast and on a day when she is home alone she is trapped in the house with her stalker outside waiting for her. This time she is terrified as she plays constantly with her thoughts and emotions. The story represents internal conflicts within the protagonist.