"", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a story that is thick with allegory. "" is a moral story which is told through the perversion of a religious leader. In "", Goodman Brown is a Puritan minister who lets his excessive pride in himself interfere with his relations with the community after he meets with the devil, and causes him to live the life of an exile in his own community. "" begins when Faith, Brown's wife, asks him not to go on an "errand". Goodman Brown says to his "love and (my) Faith" that "this one night I must tarry away from thee." Wh ....