A Puritan, Goodman Brown meets the devil. He lets this essential element interfere with his relations with the community and begins to live a life of exile. The struggle of good and evil of Brown's faith is being tested.
Young Goodman Brown bids farewell to his young wife Faith. Goodman Brown says to his love, "Faith, that this one night I must tarry away from thee." When he says his love and his Faith, he is talking to his wife, but he is also talking to his faith to God. .
Goodman Brown, a Puritan minister, lets his excessive pride take over. He thinks he can sin because of the promise he made to himself. When he ventures into the woods to meet the Devil, Brown leaves his unquestionable faith in God with his wife. But Brown's one weakness is his wife, Faith. Brown makes a promise to keep his faith unto God and stand firm against the Devil. .
His decision to enter the forest and leave his "Faith" behind is the first decision, of many, between good and evil that he must make. After entering the forest he meets a traveler whom he later finds out is the devil. Brown tells the Devil he is late because of his Faith kept him back. This statement has a double meaning because his wife, Faith, physically prevented him from getting to the meeting; spiritually God delayed his meeting with the Devil.
At the ceremony, Brown steps up to be converted. Brown addresses the members at the congregation and says, "they are all righteous, honest, and incorruptible." Then the sermon leader informs the crowd about Goodman Brown's evil deeds. Deeds such as attempted murder of his wife, adultery, and talking down upon God. .
The crowd thinks Brown is a desperate man. Goodman is put on the spot with his faith. The leader begins up again declaring that Evil is the nature of mankind and he welcomes the converts to Communion of your race.
