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When Hawthorne wrote Goodman Brown, he must've done it because of something. I think he wrote this story as sort of a warning to show the readers,that not everyone you know is who you really think they are. His purpose was to show how someone's perspective on someone could change so fast when they really start to pay attention to one's personality, and gain a better understanding of who they really are.

Faith, Brown's wife, was aptly named, because when he met he man on the walk, Brown kept saying that he wanted to go back to Faith, which he knew that the man standing in front of him was evil, so "Faith" had a double meaning. Brown didn't want to go with the evil man and kept say that he didn't want to go with the evil man but he wanted to continue his faith.

The pink ribbons mentioned over and over in the story signify that even though Goodman Brown is faced with the devil and trying to be taken his faith away, there is still a little hope for him. The ribbons are a symbol of his faith and a sense of hope when he was faced with obstacles.

Everything Goodman Brown experienced was a dream. We know this, because when he goes back to the village, everyone is acting normal, and doing their normal usual routines.