"Analysis on Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

As the piece begins, the reader sympathizes with young Goodman Brown. He seems to be a god-fearing, respectable husband with a sweet, young wife with "pink ribbons"(1236) in her cap. However this peace and serenity is disturbed when Faith ominously says, "A lone woman is troubled with such dreams and such thoughts, that she's afeard of herself, sometimes. Pray, tarry with me this night, dear husband, of all nights in the year!" (1236) This fearfully exclaimed sentence foreshadows the plot and sets the mood as well. This effective foreshadowing puts the reader in a suspenseful and apprehensive mood because the reader knows that young Goodman Brown will have upcoming trials and tribulations.…