![]() ![]() In the distance, Brown sees a figure seated at the base of a tree. ![]() Brown justifies his night away from Faith by resolving to return to her side and follow her to heaven once his errand is complete.īrown travels a lonely, dark road through the forest, wondering if he will happen upon some “devilish Indians” or the devil himself. Brown observes her melancholy expression as he leaves and wonders if she knows about the evil purpose of his errand into the wilderness. He insists that no evil will find her if she says her prayers and goes to bed. Faith, Brown’s wife, worries over the late hour, but Brown reassures her that he must leave for the night and will return the next day. ![]() Goodman Brown, a young newlywed of three months, ventures out on an undisclosed errand to the edge of Salem village. Although the story was written and published during the emergence of American Romanticism, it is set just after the Salem Witch Trials in 17th-century Puritan New England. ![]()
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