Young Goodman Brown versus the Community All people have problems with the community in which they live. Their conflicts are either with the people or the ideas of the community. In the story “Young Goodman Brown,” Nathaniel Hawthorne shows his main character having conflicts with his society. Young Goodman Brown, the main character, does not notice these problems until after his trip into the forest. The two questions that Hawthorne implies are why his character …showed first 75 words of 679 total…

…showed last 75 words of 679 total…are really evil inside. The character in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story is not content with the community that he lives in. After his strange encounter in the woods, he sees that everyone in the village is evil inside. He even finds out his family is apart of this group, and that is really upsetting. Young Goodman Brown will never be able to respect these people in his community after he has discovered their true identity.