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Quote #7
"Faith! Faith!" cried the husband. "Look up to Heaven, and resist the Wicked One!"
Whether Faith obeyed he knew not. Hardly had he spoken when he found himself amid calm night and solitude, listening to a roar of the wind which died heavily away through the forest. He staggered against the rock, and felt it chill and damp; while a hanging twig, that had been all on fire, besprinkled his cheek with the coldest dew. (69-70)
Pull out the highlighters, because this is important: we (and Goodman Brown) never actually know if Faith turns evil. That's not much to base a lifetime of misery on, if you ask us.
Quote #8
The next morning young Goodman Brown came slowly into the street of Salem village, staring around him like a bewildered man. The good old minister was taking a walk along the graveyard to get an appetite for breakfast and meditate his sermon, and bestowed a blessing, as he passed, on Goodman Brown.
Think it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood? Think again: evil lurks beneath.
Quote #9
He shrank from the venerable saint as if to avoid an anathema. Old deacon Gookin was at domestic worship, and the holy words of his prayer were heard through the open window. "What God doth the wizard pray to?" quoth Goodman Brown. Goody Cloyse, that excellent old Christian, stood in the early sunshine at her own lattice, catechizing a little girl who had brought her a pint of morning's milk. Goodman Brown snatched away the child as from the grasp of the fiend himself.
What we're into here is the contrast between what the narrator says—"the venerable saint," "that excellent old Christian"—and the way Goodman Brown reacts. So, who's right? The narrator, who sees the good in people… or Goodman Brown?