tand to look at his wife with whom he was at theconvert service with. He feels that even though he was at the Devil's service, he is still better thaneveryone else because of his excessive pride. Brown feels he can push his own faults on to othersand look down at them rather than look at himself and resolve his own faults with himself.Goodman Brown was devastated by the discovery that the potential for evil resides ineverybody. The rest of his life is destroyed because of his inability to face this truth and live withit. The story, which may have been a dream, and not a real life event, planted the seed of doubt inBrown's mind which consequently cut him off from his fellow man and leaves him alone anddepressed. His life ends alone and miserable because he was never able to look at himself andrealize that what he believed were everyone else's faults were his as well. His excessive pride inhimself led to his isolation from the community. Brown was buried with "no hopeful verse uponhis tombstone; for his dying hour was gloom."...
