Wow, it’s been a real long time since I’ve read this story.

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” was originally published in 1835 and republished in 1846, and has become a staple of high school English classes ever since. It’s a not-too-subtle allegory about the loss of faith, as well as how the Puritans were kind of awful. Which was one of Hawthorne’s favorite subjects, to be fair.

So, let’s get started.

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