To start, the story begins at sunset in “the street of Salem village” (Hawthorne). Young Goodman Brown, the protagonist, parts with his wife, Faith. She is wearing pink ribbons on her cap, which plays a part in the story. As Mr. Brown …show more content…
“The cry of grief, rage, and terror, was yet piercing the night” as he stormed through the forest searching for Faith (Hawthorne). Rushing through the forest, he spots something fluttering through the air. The enigmatic object lands on the branch of a tree. Young Goodman seizes a pink ribbon. “‘My Faith is gone!’” Goodman cries (Hawthorne). With the pink ribbon in his hand, he storms to this secretive meeting, that his deceiving friends are attending.
Goodman Brown comes upon “an open space, hemmed in by the dark wall of the forest, arose a rock, bearing some rude, natural resemblance either to an altar or a pulpit, and surrounded by four blazing pines, their tops aflame, their stems untouched, like candles at an evening meeting” (Hawthorne). There he saw “the council-board of the province and others which, Sabbath after Sabbath, looked devoutly heavenward, and benignantly over the crowded pews, from the holiest pulpits in the land”