Assuming this experience to have been a dream, analyze the psychological message coming from G.B's unconsious mind. Assuming this experience to have...

If the
experience of Goodman Brown is a dream, it expresses  unconscious doubts about his own goodness
and that of the Puritans.  At the end of the story he is buried with "no hopeful verse upon
his tombstone, for his dying hour was gloom."  This last description hints at the
innate darkness in the soul of the man.

This darkness is suggested early in
the story when Goodman encounters the old man by an old tree, who remarks that Goodman is
late. ...