been dealing with such evil. GoodmanBrown later tells the devil, “What if a wretched old woman do choose to go to the devil when Ithought she was going to heaven: is that any reason why I should quit my Faith and go afterher?”(p1210.) Soon after Goodman Brown sees Goody Cloyse the minister and Deacon Gookinfrom the town church ride nearby on horses. Goodman hears the men talking about going to agroup meeting with the devil in the woods and how they would not miss it for anything in theworld. This makes Goodman Brown lose even more faith in the members of his town andquestion his own actions as well. Finally the devil leaves Goodman Brown to his thoughts andlets him walk alone. While Goodman Brown is walking through the forest, he hears a soundcoming from up above him. He looks up and sees a cloud; within the cloud he hears the voicesof townspeople he knows, and the voice of his wife, Faith, “... uttering lamentations...”(p1211.)Goodman Brown begins to cry out to his wife hoping to save her from the evil she is surroundedby. Then Goodman Brown listens for a reply and, “There was a scream, drowned immediatelyin a louder murmer of voices, fading into far-off laughter, as the dark cloud swept away...”(p1212.) Goodman Brown watches the cloud blow away and then he sees one of the pinkribbons from his wife’s hair fall down from the sky. Goodman knows at this moment that hiswife’s innocence and faith are gone. He cries’ out, “My Faith is gone! There is no good onearth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given.”(p1212.) GoodmanBrown finally loses all of his faith in the townspeople and he sees all of the evil that theyembody. Goodman Brown loses everything that he ever loved and believed in and is doomed tolive out the rest of his life in his own misery and pain.Throughout the story “Young Goodman Brown,” Goodman Brown is pushe...
