This is a
good question. The story "" opens with a strange exchange between the title character
and his wife, Faith. Faith wants him to stay home, but he replies that he has business in the
woods at night:
"My love and my
Faith," replied young Goodman Brown, "of all nights in the year, this one night must I
tarry away from thee. My journey, as thou callest it, forth and back again, must needs be done
'twixt now and sunrise. What, my sweet, pretty wife, dost thou doubt me already, and we but
three months married!"
Young Goodman Brown
clearly has some sort of business in the forest, the reader is told, and this business must
take...
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