Internal Conflict of Goodman Brown The story of “Young Goodman Brown” exemplifies the struggle of one man’s internal conflict of good and evil. The main character, Goodman Brown, leaves Salem village and his wife, Faith, to travel into the depths of the dark forest. The Young Goodman Brown will be aged with the knowledge he faces in this one night. Brown keeps his appointment with the devil in the forest, and he must choose …showed first 75 words of 1956 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1956 total…was gloom”(319). His death was gloom because he didn’t know where he was going to end up, above or below his deathbed. Brown’s moral and social isolation is the worst possible evil that a man can ever have happen to him. If he would have looked at the evils in mankind, he could’ve recognized the good in people. That was the full intention of the dream, but he failed the test miserably.