Putnam's motivations are to underbid the land value and then gain more land in Salem for a tidier profit. His willingness to speak about witchcraft are personal in another way. I hope this helps
main motivation: to stay out of trouble. main conflict: first to be accused; people want to place the blame on her. ... main motivation: to keep Parris and Putnam honest; to keep order. main conflict: not very well respected since he is old; considered a joke.
"The sensation developed into pain that grew acute. And still he endured it, holding the flames of matches clumsily to the bark that would not light readily because his own burning hands were in the way, absorbing most of the flame."
Its darkness and scary monsters led the child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim (who later said he hadn't read the book, and based his critique on mothers' descriptions) to write in a 1969 issue of Ladies' Home Journal that the book was “psychologically damaging for 3- and 4-year-olds.
