The greatestin
Hawthorne's story "" is that Young Goodman Brown, named after a grandfather who was
"an old friend" of the devil who walks the younger man to the black mass, is not good
at all. Shocked at the hypocrisy of everyone else--Deacon Gookin and Goody Cloyse--Goodman
Brown is far darker in his soul than any of the others, whose names he finds
ironic without realizing that his own is the most ironic. For, it was "a
dream of evil omen for Young Goodman Brown."
A stern,
a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man did he become from the night
of that fearful dream.
After his night in the forest,
the irony is that Goodman Brown, the sanctimonious, self-righteous Puritan who
loses his faith more than any other, perceives evil in all with which he comes
into contact--Faith, the minister, the congregation, his children and grandchildren.
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