• Young Goodman Brown is the perfect model puritan he goes to church every Sunday, says his prayers before bed every night and before meals every day, and thinks everyone is a sinner and going to hell except him. This is the hypocrisy of the puritan life perfectly displayed in the short story Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
    Young Goodman Brown takes a night time walk in the woods and he ends up walking with an old man who turns out to be the devil. Goodman Brown passes by many of the town’s more prominent religious people all also walking through the woods at night. Brown thinks there is something wrong with that but doesn’t think there is anything wrong with doing that himself. He sees all of the villagers attending a black mass including his wife. When Goodman Brown is offered to join them he denies and wakes up in the forest wondering if it was all a dream. He doesn’t know but that doesn’t sop him from seeing the whole town as sinners.
    At the end of the story he closes off his heart to the sinning townsfolk sinning himself but he would never admit it and never repent to it so even though he was never baptized in he black mass he still wont be admitted into his heaven and the devil baptized townsfolk will probably be if the repent before they die