ty" (p. 109). Seeing them, he questions "But where is Faith?" (p. 109) both searching for his wife and his lost inner morality. The sighting of his wife among the Devil's congregation proves that even the strongest Faith can be tempted into darkness. Young Goodman Brown begs his wife to "look up to heaven, and resist the wicked one" (p. 109). In a symbolic nature he is begging himself, his very being, his own Faith, to resist the lure of the wicked one. "Whether Faith obeyed, he knew not" (p. 111).Young Goodman Brown awakes to a calm Salem village, with "The good old minister taking a walk along the graveyard to get an appetite for breakfast and meditate his sermon, and Goody Cloyse catechizing a little girl. He spies the head of Faith, with the pink ribbons, gazing anxiously forth, and bursting into such joy at the sight of him that she skipped along the street and almost kissed her husband before the whole village" (p. 111). Young Goodman Brown looks sternly and sadly into her face, and passes on without a greeting. "Had Young Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting?" (p. 112). It does not matter, for Young Goodman Brown becomes "a stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man" (p. 111). He shrinks from the bosom of Faith, and he dies a "hoary corpse" (p. 111). It does not matter that Young Goodman Brown rejected the Devil at his fiery altar that night in the forest. The Devil has claimed his Faith in humanity in another way...
