At the beginning of each story, the main characters Rodrick Usher and Goodman Brown both appear to be just two normal kids, but the events in each story show that they do not that's how it is. In fact, at the end of the stories, it's exactly the opposite. Both Usher and Brown are completely crazy or corrupt. It's safe to say that both characters are out of control. Both characters would be classified as dynamic, because there is a drastic change in both of them between the beginning and end of their respective stories. Usher and Brown went through a lot in these stories, and both ended up in the predicament of death. When it comes to conflict in both stories, the belief systems are man and self. Furthermore, presented as man against self. This type of conflict is considered internal. Throughout both stories, Brown and Usher have had to battle their own minds, and things don't end well for either of them..