In the short story "Young Goodman Brown", the main character is a man disillusioned by sin. At the end of the story, the reader realizes that all of his disillusionment was a dream, but he continues to believe the lies in his reality. This affects the story because obviously all of those characters are not truly evil. Everyone is a sinner. That doesn’t mean that the way his dream portrayed those characters such as Faith, Goody Cloyse, The Minister, and Deacon Gookin is correct representations of their character. This tells us that Goodman Brown is easily swayed in his opinion and that he truly doesn’t have much faith. I think the ambiguity of interpretation is related to the story’s theme because sin seems to distort reality and cause you to
