Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"

This essay explores the morals presented in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" It is difficult to summarize Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" with solely one moral. There are so many different sides to the tale that can give every reader a different moral to relate back to their life. I think that Hawthorne had this in mind while writing the story because he made it so that it is open to different interpretations. It is …

…ll not end up like him. "...when the family knelt down at prayer, he scowled, and muttered to himself, and gazed sternly at his wife, and turned away. And when he had lived long, and was borne to his grave, a hoary corpse, followed by Faith, an aged woman, and children and grandchildren, a goodly procession, besides neighbors, not a few, they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone; for his dying hour was gloom."