The Real Courage-Comparison between the central characters in "Roger Malvin's Burial" and "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

Courage is not a virtue which can be defined in one broad stroke. Nor can it be easily under adverse conditions. In "Roger Malvin's Burial" by Nathaniel Hawthorne along with "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Francis O'Connor, a lack of courage can be seen in two distinct ways. In "Roger Malvin's Burial", the protagonist, Reuben Bourne, is haunted by a looming sense of guilt from the knowledge that he did not come …

…that this doesn't have to be the case. Both these stories represent the fact that we all face troubles in life and might no always handle them in the best of ways, however, all people are capable of digging deep within themselves to figure out the truth if they can muster the internal strength necessary. <Tab/> <Tab/> <Tab/> <Tab/>