Did National Hawthorne have "trust issues"? It might seem so since his most famous female main characters either were guilty of adultery or suspected of being unfaithful. But if we look more closely on the historical and cultural setting of both The Scarlett Letter and Young Goodman Brown, it's New England Puritanism and the misogynist attitude of Puritanism that Hawthorne was writing about in these famous works of literature..
a. The Intentionalist theory
b. The Anti-Intentionalist theory