Young Goodman Brown

This story begins as a love story and him having to leave for a meeting of some sort. When Goodman Brown talks of having to leave Faith I first thought he was going to a meeting for something bad, like he was involved in something bad that he didn't want Faith to know about. When he arrived at the forest I figured he knew the man, but the man said he knew his father and grandfather which was freaky. He also had a cane that had a snake on it that was realistic and could help him get to his destination faster. It seemed as though he denied the devil or a temptation of a devil. Next Goodman Brown ran into a woman he knew  but revealed herself as a witch. This seems like a symbol that he shouldn't trust everyone he knows to say they're Christian.  Then I believe he is tempted and teased by using Faith to lure him, because he hears her voice and find her ribbon. At the ceremony he sees many people he knows and his father pressing him forward, but his own mother holding him back. Maybe the mother could be trying to help him and act as a gaurdian angel. Finally, when he up there with Faith he tells her to look up to the heavens and resist the devil.  He then is alone and when heads back home he refuses to greet the people, because he sees them as evil. He even snatches a little girl so she isn't tainted by them. I don't believe he was completely insane for it, but maybe had a vision he believed to be a sign of God to warn him and help the people in the village.