In the story of “Young Goodman Brown” Hawthorne uses distinct symbolism when identifying his characters. The names of his characters are symbolic in their meaning; Hawthorne uses the idea of nature to put forth his point that his stories are symbolic to real life. As he states from the preface to the eighteen fifty one edition of Twice-Told Tales; “Even in what puport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always warmly …showed first 75 words of 726 total…

…showed last 75 words of 726 total…wife’s departure is shortly after he truly decides that his faith is gone. The pink ribbon of which Faith wears at the beginning suddenly falls from the clear sky and into his hand. The pink ribbon is a symbolism of heaven and all that is still holy. It resembles the real faith of Goodman Brown; when it falls to his hand is shows that all is lost in the mind of young Goodman Brown.