Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Summery
The story starts off with Brown leaving his wife Faith to into the woods. In the woods he encounters the Devil who invites him to journey with him. Brown being always fearful continues along with him. A women appears in the woods and where the Devil continues towards her he turns away. As he watches the women calls him the Devil and the mans staff turns into a snake. He starts to run away when he hears voices singing and sees his wife's pink ribbon in the trees and turns around to find her. He see people assembling in the center of the woods. He notices people from his town and clergy members from his church. He sees his dead father beckoning him towards the fire in the center but also sees his mother telling him to stay away. Without thought he is pulled in the group. Here hears every ones sin and secret evil. Then his wife Faith joins him and he wishes her to look up to heaven. The next day he gets up and hurries back to town where he is embraced by his wife. He wonders if it had all been a dream, but the next time he attends church he hears it. Like little wipers he hears every ones sins that are pouring to him. From that day further he lost his faith and died a sad and gloomy man.

Comment
I think that the story is all about him losing his faith. When he goes into the woods he is terrified of all the evil that by be hiding in the woods. When he goes to leave the woods he sees his wife's ribbon and that is symbolic to me to represent not only him losing his wife but that is the point where he returns and learns that evil is all around him even in his town and at church. That is when he truly loses his faith.