In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” we are introduced to a couple who is parting for one night because Goodman Brown has promised to have a meeting with a traveler he is to meet in a dark wooded area. Goodman Brown is faced with the decision to decline the traveler’s offer to hold his walking stick which has an almost lifelike serpent on it. We later learn that Goody Cloyse an old woman whom they meet in the woods, accuses the traveler of being the devil, and then confesses that he is her old friend and that she is in-fact a witch. Goodman Brown is being led to the Devil’s evil ceremony where he sees many people whom he believed to be pious at the ceremony; he even thinks he hears the voice of his wife Faith, and then when he sees a pink ribbon from her hat falling down from the sky he is too disappointed in everyone he knew his whole life whom he now believes are Devil worshipers. No one really knows if he fell asleep in the woods and dreamed the whole thing up, but he was never the same man he was before this experience, he doubts everyone and everything he pretty much just kept to himself in gloom. When he died, his wife Faith, his children and grandchildren couldnt even write anything about him on his tombstone, the ceremony was just a gloom.
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