YBG Questions/Answers

   Questions

1. What do you think Hawthorne's purpose was for writing this story?
2. Hawthorne states that Brown's wife is "aptly named" Faith.  After reading the story, do you agree?  Does Faith's name fit her personality?  Does Brown have true faith in her?
3. What do you think the pink ribbons signify?
4. Was everything Brown witnessed real, a figment of his imagination, something conjured by evil, or a dream?  Support your answer with passages from the text.
5. Who do you think the old man really is?  What textual clues tell you this?
6. What does the staff represent?  Do you think the staff leads Brown onward or is the primary motivator Brown's own conscience/mind?
7. If Brown had not ventured into the forest, how would his life be different?  If he'd stayed home, would Brown still have Faith?  Would he still trust his wife and his fellow townspeople?

Answers 

1. I think Hawthorne's purpose for the story was that everything isn't as it seems.

2.I think he name in a way fits she hasn't  seen what Young Goodman Brown has seen.

I'm not sure if Brown still has faith in her.

3. I think the pink ribbons signify how inocent, naive, and playful Faith is.

4.I do think that Brown was dreaming it says in the passage" Had Goodman Brown fallen

asleep in the forest, and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting?", and also when

Brown's old friend showed up she acted like he wasnt even there and how she just showed up out of nowhere.

5. I think the old man is like old family member like a grandfather or something.

6. I think the staff represents th Devils way to lure Breon farther and farther in to the woods.

I do think the staff makes him keep going cause at one point they ask him if he's tired so 

he can use the staff to help him keep going.

7.If Brown would have stayed home he wouldn't have changed in anyway his way of thinking  would have stayed the same. He would still trust everybody and everything.