The Downfall of Young Goodman Brown “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorn is an excellent short story telling of Young Goodman Brown’s (the main character) religious trials and tribulations. If a person had seen the minister of a church playing poker at a neighbor’s house, would he/she reconsider his/her faith and deem him a hoax? Possibly. Society has a set of ideals placed upon religious leaders and if they should sway …showed first 75 words of 1099 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1099 total…the woods with the devil. He became isolated from his family, friends, and the church. When Brown’s final day of life came, he was lowered to his grave and “they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone; for his dying hour was gloom.” The author does a wonderful job of invalidating the main belief of Puritanism that the harder a person works for God or the Bible he/she will be safe from sin.