My thoughts on "Young Goodman Brown"

When Goodman Brown leaves his wife to go on a walk in the woods, it is somewhat foreshadowing. He is leaving his wife,Faith, and when he returns he is no longer youthful and happy, but rather bitter. He goes to grave like this as Hawthorne writes,"besides neighbors not a few, they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone, for his dying hour was gloom." Hawthorne uses symbolism in the names of the characters. Goodman Brown, his first name can represent his life before his experience in the woods he was a happy and Goodman, but after he realized that he was surrounded by sinners and became a bitter man. Brown is a dark and just gloomy color. His wife ironically has the name Faith. In the beginning of the story he leaves his wife and this is symbolic of him leaving his faith later on.