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Meaningful or Meaningless In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” Hawthorne wrote the short story to seem that it contains ambiguity. There are different meanings of how Goodman Brown spends his life, of how he sees the world afterwards. There is also question about what was the reason for the meaning of the forest. There are potential supernatural occurrences in the story. There is also a suggestion that the story is only in Goodman’s head psychological. Although all the meanings have an allegory to it, it is still said that the story does make sense of its ambiguity. The meanings of why Young Goodman Brown goes to the forest is that he goes over to the devil. Reasons for why to meet in a “darkened forest with the gloomiest trees.” Hawthorne emphasizes the split between convention and the unconscious by having Goodman move from the town to the forest as he follows his impulses. The deeper he moves into the forest, the more completely he becomes one with his evil. This