In this passage from "By the Waters of Babylon", by Stephen Vincent Bennet, the narrator responds to the conflict in this passage <em>the narrator takes control of his spirit by using his priesthood. </em>This is the story of a man who is called John and belongs to a tribe called the Hill People. He is the son of a priest and will become a priest himself. In that tribe, only priests are allowed to travel to the Great Places of Gods.
The lack of information about Shakespeare presents questions of credibility and reliability. People may believe that Shakespeare was a front to hide the identity of the real author/authors, and that Shakespeare did not write plays credited to him rather than another discredited author.
I would argue that both short stories present characters (Goodman Brown and Mrs. Sommers, respectively) that are weary of their current lives and, ideally, would like to be able to escape. Goodman Brown is losing his faith in his wife, his community and his religion, and Mrs. Sommers would prefer to focus on her and on her needs rather than on her children.
The sentence would be "I know well enough that a step like that is improper and might be misconstrued".
Look at the word choice in the sentence: "improper" and "misconstrued."
Misconstrued means to interpret someone's actions or words in a way that was not the original meaning.
The narrator knows that society will look at her as odd if she jumps out the window, so she doesn't.
