One thing that is fascinating about “Young Goodman Brown” is the several amount of allusions that are set forth in the story. By using the old man, who is a symbolic representation of the devil, Hawthorne was able to use him as a way to highlight the evil things that the Puritans did. Although Goodman Brown asserted that his generation was “… a race of honest man and good Christians since the days of the martyrs,” the old man was able to debunked this. Starting off with Goodman’s grandfather, the old man stated “I helped your grandfather, the constable, when he lashed the Quaker woman so smartly through the streets of Salem; ” (). This emphasize the intolerance that the Puritans had when it came to other religions. Next, the old man then noted
