Certainly, I assume you
are looking for the five most important events in the story, so that's what I'll
discuss.
First, Goodman Brown makes a conscious choice to walk away from
Faith (his wife and his Christian faith, allegorically speaking) and toward sinfulness. He
thinks, "[...] after this one night, I'll cling to her skirts and follow her to
Heaven." However, we are not supposed to only have faith when it is convenient for us; we
cannot walk away from it with the intention to sin and expect God to simply wait. This choice,
to abandon his faith, begins Brown's misfortunes.
Second, he meets a man who
looks a lot like his own grandfather, a man who can travel from Boston to Salem in just fifteen
minutes and has a serpent staff (the serpent is a common symbol of the Devil as a result of the
story of the Garden of Eden). This man is even called "he of the serpent." This man
has, evidently been "well acquainted" with several generations of Brown's family. He
is then identified by Goody...
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