od held him back from going to the Devil. As Mr. Brown goes deeper in the forest with the Devil, he notices his staff which resembles a serpent. This is obviously a literary allegory to the story of Adam and Eve in the bible in which a serpent, the most slyest and keen of all animals, convinces Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge. This seems like a symbol where later on in the story, When Mr. Brown is deeper in the forest, he learns things about the people in the town that he never knew, nor did he want to know. As Mr. Brown goes farther into the forest with the Devil, the Devil begins to use people that Mr. Brown knows to break him. First by saying that he was with his father while burning witches in earlier years, also by showing him Goody Close in the forest picking up the staff that the Devil throws down at her feet without any argument. Seeing this breaks him but he still is strong. Finally he hears the voices of Deacon Gookin and the minister. They are talking about going to a meeting deep within the forest. Mr. Brown knows nothing of any church convention in the forest especially where Indian's may also be. This is a reference to the earlier statement that a devilish Indian could be behind any tree and now they is to be a meeting with them.Mr. Brown finally ends his walk in the forest when he finds a gathering of all the towns people deep within the forest. He is pulled into it by one of the people there and is brought up to be baptized by the devil along with his wife Faith. Here again the word faith is used both in him loosening his wife to the devil and him losing his faith in god to the devil. Finally when he is about to yell for his wife to say no to the Devil he realizes he is against a cold rock and the branches that were on fire drip dew on him. He is unsure if he was dreaming or if this incident actually happened. He returns to the village and continues to live a "stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrust...
