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YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN By: Anonymous YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN Nathaniel Hawthorne, famous for his short and children stories, took on the issue of evil in our minds, in his story, Young Goodman Brown. Hawthorne begins his story in the setting of Salem village in Massachusetts. I believe the authors’ selection of Salem was a good one, for it is a town that symbolizes evil with its history of the witch trials. Hawthorne takes a personal interest in the setting, where his grandfather was a judge at the trials. He wrote the story from the third person point of view of an anonymous onlooker. The author used very dark descriptive words introducing the settings that he wanted to present to give the reader a feeling of darkness and evil. The dreary road with dark gloomy trees,“ a grave decent into the wilderness”, and the dreadful anthem within the canopy of fire are just a few examples of this symbolism. In the plot of the story, Young Goodman Brown, the protagonist, was pushed to the limit and had his religious faith questioned, when every