This quote has a direct irony in correlation to Nathaniel Hawthorne's tale of "Young Goodman Brown". ... Young Goodman Brown is an upstanding man in the community. ... "Young" symbolizes his youth and immaturity. ... When the devil does appear, Goodman Brown seems almost to have been expecting him. ... Goodman Brown never finds out if Faith resisted evil, or if the ceremony was just a dream. ...

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Young Goodman Brown is another case. ... In the beginning of the story, you could tell that Goodman Brown loved his wife Faith very much. ... By the end of the story, Goodman Brown is still not sure whether what he saw was a dream or whether he really witnessed the "witch meeting" in the forest but out of fear, he distances himself from Faith and starts to distrust her. ... Also, in Young Goodman Brown, when he said "My Faith is Gone!" ...

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