Is "Young Goodman Brown" an Initiation Story? Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"

According to
Litweb glossary, an initiation story is "one in which a character--often a child or young
person--first learns a significant, usually life-changing truth about the universe, society,
people, himself or herself."

While 's initial state is somewhat altered
by his witness of the Black Mass in the dark forest where he "loses his Faith" and he
becomes confirmed in the belief of the depravity of man and his impossibilty for redemption,
Brown does not learn a significant truth about either others or himself.  Rather, he is simply
initially deluded about himself; then, after his experiences, he
continues this delusion. The ambiguity
of the conclusion of the experience in the forest underscores the continuing ambiguity in the
mind of Brown about himself as a Christian.

Returning to the expostion
of...