What do you think Goodman Brown has been forced to accept?

Brown is
forced to accept--but in fact does not, and therefore despairs--that Faith as a virtue is indeed
"a poor little thing" (which is how he refers to his wife when he leaves her) and that
he cannot take it for granted. His real or imagined trip into the forest where he learns about
evil challenges his faith, and he loses it. He think he can withstand temptation, but goes so
far to the edge that in fact does lose his faith in the goodness of humanity and the justice of
God. What he should learn is that faith needs to be nurtured and cared for and not arrogantly
challenged. He thinks he is strong enough to exist without it as he walks into the unknown
("poor little faith") but in fact he is not.