Young Goodman Brown

Young Goodman Brown Summary
This story is quite confusing in the beginning because I don’t understand why Goodman is going on a journey and why does his wife, Faith, has a bad feeling about it. He even seems to have a bad feeling about it himself. Now as he starts to travel into the wood I become a little confused myself but what I did take from it was that he was with the devil and didn’t have the slightest clue. Little does he know that this trip will change his whole life.
I think he thought he was on this trip to better his spiritual journey, but instead he ends up very confused and alone. He thinks that everyone around him is the perfect Christians and he want to become more like them. He probably thinks this trip will help but he doesn’t know he is with the devil. And in the middle of the journey the devil leaves him alone and he makes a discovery on his own. He finds that the “church” people come into this dark and un heard of woods.
The reason that they come is so that they can have communion and be converted but young Goodman can’t seem to grasp the concept of them coming into the dark unsafe woods. He starts to lose hope and calls on his wife, Faith, and ,even hears her voice faintly scream back. And it turns out that he finds Faith is there with the rest of the “Christians”. They are all there worshiping the devil and being converted into evil doers. He can’t even believe that he sees his wife their along with all the other pure and innocent people he looked up to. He tries to tstop the whole ceremony and calls Faith so that she will resist the devil and all of a sudden everyone disappears in the blink of an eye. Goodman ends up back home and it seems like everything was a dream, but when he gets back everyone ignores him even after his death.
This story is representing a man who is over come by hypocrites and he doesn’t even know it until he of course catches them in the act. And I think that Faith represents his actual faith that he was in God and when he tries to save his faith he loses the popularity of his people. Sometimes when you do the right thing people won’t respect you for it. I just think the story goes to show that not all the people we give all this praise to are the perfect people.