"Young Goodman Brown" This is a brief essay, evaluating Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, YGB through a brief summary of the key points in the story. 507 words, English 242, Univertsity Level

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…tter pessimist, seeing only evil in the world. Goodman Brown's faith was destroyed because it was a second hand faith, based on what he was taught by others, rather than what was in the Bible, and taught by the Lord. Brown's walk in the woods caused him to suffer the rest of his life. He eventually died; obsessed by the secrets he discovered in the forest and destroyed by the secrets he discovered in himself