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“Young Goodman Brown”, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a tale of how the persuasive power of the devil can convince weaker-willed people to join the “wicked one” in an eternal pursuit of evil. Throughout this short story, Goodman Brown wrestles with the rewards, and consequences, of joining the wicked one, being even more concerned of the consequences that his innocent wife, Faith, may face. At the end of this story, not so young anymore Goodman Brown, finally passes away, and as Hawthorne states “And when he had lived long, and was borne to his grave, a hoary corpse, followed by Faith, an aged woman, and children and grand-children, a goodly procession, besides neighbors, not a few, they carved no hopeful verse upon his tomb