The story entitled “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne is set in the village of Salem and describes the dream of a young man who comes face to face with the Devil, who appears in the form of an old man and accompanies Goodman Brown on his errand in the woods. Through his journey into the woods with the devil, Goodman Brown will discover more about the evil in man and know that evil resides within each of us. At the beginning of the story Goodman Brown leaves his home, and his wife, Faith, on a late-night errand with the Devil. Because of the bad dreams Faith has been having, she asks her husband not to go on the trip, as she said, but he says she has to go, "of all the nights in the year, this night I must stay away from you" ( 305). At the beginning of the story, Faith is presented positively, because she is a faithful wife, "the wife was appropriately named" (304). When Goodman Brown leaves his home, he not only leaves his wife Faith, but he also leaves his faith in God by joining the Devil. Since Goodman Brown is meeting the Devil, Goodman Brown is counting on his wife to redeem him, "she is a blessed angel on earth; and after this night I will clasp her skirts and follow her to heaven" (305). After that, he meets the Devil being fifteen minutes late, due to his conversation with Faith, “Faith held me back a while” (306). Since Faith represents his wife's name and his belief in God, this statement proves have two meanings. So his conversation with Faith delays him from meeting the Devil, and his faith in God also delays him, because he doesn't want to lose his faith in God. When Goodman Brown meets the Devil, he realizes that the Devil's stick "carried the... in the center of the card... loses control of his entire body, when he enters to convert to the devil. The shadowy figure declares “Evil is the nature of humanity” (314) . Which means that evil resides within each of us. Suddenly, Goodman Brown regains consciousness and begins calling out to his wife: "Faith! Faith! Look to the sky and resist the wicked!" (314). He wants me to regain consciousness. After that, Goodman Brown finds himself in the woods, "in the still night and solitude, listening to the roar of the wind, dying heavily through the forest" (314). The next morning, Goodman Brown walks through the streets of the village, but cannot separate reality from dream, which makes the rest of his life bleak, because many of the people he knows are in that bad dream. The bad dream makes everyone doubt, including his wife, who is the person he thinks can redeem him and he can follow her to heaven.