Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" is a symbolic story of possible evil in human behavior. The author makes you believe that the most advanced evil person could knowingly make weakness in their heart and care about other people's emotions and mortality. In the story, young Goodman Brown commits this sin which will eventually change his life for the worse. The author, however, uses allegory to represent something else that is happening in the story. Like a great trip that ended his relationship with Faith because it didn't end the way he expected. Hawthorne uses symbols to display, hoping to prevent others from becoming a person like Young Goodman Brown. This story is full of symbolic ideas and provides a good example of an allegory for each character's reasoning and purpose in designing the storyline. How the author explains Brown's departure from his wife Faith, his journey through the forest and his entry into the ceremony. Hawthorne uses both objects and characters throughout the story to better support the allegorical tones throughout the story of "Young Goodman Brown" to make the symbols seem excessive to the reader. The novella opens with the appearance of young Goodman Brown just before he leaves his wife for this. journey "at sunset, in the street of the village of Salem, but he drew back his head, after crossing the threshold, to exchange a farewell kiss with his young wife. And Faith, as his wife was aptly named, threw her pretty head into the street, letting the wind play with the ribbons of her cap, while she called Goodman Brown” (Hawthorne 92). However, the main character Brown has already begun the journey that will lead to his downfall from this very first line. The act of crossing...... middle of paper...... into trouble. His interest is what started him on his journey, this one-night historical disaster. He is also unable to distinguish the power of night itself at the end of the store. Wondering if this was all real or if it was a dream where his mind was just playing tricks on him. Was it all a dream? He also doesn't know that Faith has remained pure. And if she was corrupt, might she now know things about Goodman Brown that he didn't know himself. His confusion forces him to isolate himself emotionally and harden his heart, which is after all the worst sin of all. “Young Goodman Brown” is a story of evidence. The theme of the story is that every man harbors in his heart his own secret sin, which in itself is quite obvious. Hawthorne does a good job supporting this theme with different symbols and allegorical interpretations throughout the story..