More specifically, he shrinks away from the blessings of the minister. He grabs a child away from Goody Cloyse as she is teaching her the catechism, he refuses to greet his wife Faith, and he worries and wonders as he sits in church for the rest of his life why...
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More specifically, he shrinks away from the blessings of the minister. He grabs a child away from Goody Cloyse as she is teaching her the catechism, he refuses to greet his wife Faith, and he worries and wonders as he sits in church for the rest of his life why the roof does not cave in every time a prayer is said or a hymn sung. He becomes solitary and despairing, a man who has become disillusioned with the one thing he had proudly built his life around, his faith.
He turns away from all of them, even his wife Faith. He becomes a stern, sad, distrustful man.