As an /, 's
short story "" makes ironic use of the symbolic figures in the narrative as well as
verbal and dramatic to depict the Puritan hypocrisy. For instance, Young Goodman Brown's name
itself certainly has a an ironic twist put upon its meaning as the narrator remarks that
Brown possesses "a considerable resemblance to the traveller with the snakelike staff.
Later on, this resemblance is underscored by the witch Goody Cloyse, who remarks that the young
man is made "in the very image of my old gossip, Goodman Brown," a remark that
contradicts the traveller comment that he has been
"as well acquainted with [his] family as with ever a one among the Puitans; and
that's no trifle to say."
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