“Young Goodman Brown” "Young Goodman Brown", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a moralizing story. Hawthorne shows us the great importance of our faith in God, our family and friends, and at length ourselves. The plight of Goodman Brown indicates that without our “faith” we are unable to live life to the fullest possible extent. Faith is our key to happiness. "Young Goodman Brown" begins with Goodman Brown about to depart for an “errand” that will take …showed first 75 words of 1574 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1574 total…rest of his days. What Brown witnessed in the forest may have been a dream, a hallucination, or not, but nevertheless it planted the seed of doubt in his mind which consequently cut him off from his fellow man and left him alone and depressed. His life ends alone and miserable because somewhere in that forest he left his faith behind, unable to overcome the terrible consequences of his journey and thus losing all hope.