The Young Goodman Brown The story by Nathaniel Hawthorne “The Young Goodman Brown” is a moral story about a man, Goodman Brown, and about his downfall in his believes. He is a Puritan minister who lets his excessive pride in himself interfere with the relationships with community after he meets with the Devil. And this causes him to live his life alone, of an exile of his own community. “Young Goodman Brown” begins when Faith, …showed first 75 words of 815 total…

…showed last 75 words of 815 total…in everybody. The rest of his life if destroyed because of is inability to face the truth and live with it. His life end alone because he was never able to look at himself and realized that what he believed were as well his fault as everybody else’s. His pride in himself led to his isolation from community. Brown was buried with “no hopeful verse upon his tombstone; for his dying hour was gloom”(1215).