ds, he becomes very angry with his community. He now has to decide whether or not to join this group of evil beings. Since he chooses not to follow the group, he also chooses not to adapt to his community. The reason why he does not want to adapt is because he has been lied to his entire life. Some of the most respected people that Goodman Brown has looked up to are now involved with the devil. If Brown were to adjust to the community, he would destroy everything that he has lived for. Besides not wanting to adapt to his community, Goodman Brown also dislikes the aspects of the village. He has found out that everyone in Salem Village is living a lie. The following morning he comes across many of the villagers who were present at the ceremony. He notices that “the good old minister was taking a walk along the graveyard to get an appetite for breakfast and meditate his sermon, and bestowed a blessing, as he passed, on Goodman Brown;” however, Goodman Brown “shrank from the venerable saint as if to avoid an anathema (272)”. He also notices that “Goody Cloyse, that excellent old Christian, stood in the early sunshine at her own lattice, catechizing a little girl,” but “Goodman Brown snatched away the child as from the grasp of the fiend himself (272)”. When Goodman Brown sees these people, he is upset that they have been living a lie. He does not even acknowledge his wife when she waves to him in the street. The aspect of the culture that Young Goodman Brown does not like is how the villagers pretend to be good, yet they 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 comm...
