hom he was at the convert service with. He feels that even though he was at the Devil's service,he is still better than everyone else because of his excessive pride. 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. He is stricken with doubt and his faith is lost. He lives in fear for the rest of his days. WhatBrown witnessed in the forest may have been a dream, a hallucination, or not, but nevertheless itplanted the seed of doubt in his mind which consequently cut him off from his fellow man and lefthim alone and depressed. His life ends alone and miserable because somewhere in that forest heleft his faith behind, unable to overcome the terrible consequences of his journey and thus losingall hope. ...
