In Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, Young Goodman Brown, we follow the plot which begins in Salem during the 1800s. A young gentleman leaves his home for an evening and learns that the people in his community aren't as innocent as he once thought. An example of foreshadowing is when he leaves Faith, in the beginning, she says to him, "Pray tarry with me this night, dear husband, of all nights in the year." It is obvious later that Faith knows that something is going on and she does not want her husband out in it. In the story, Young Goodman Brown meets with an unknown traveler deep into the woods where they end up at a worship service. Unfortunately for Brown, it was not his normal worship service, but a worship service that was set up for the devil. The Young Goodman Brown was faced with a choice. He had to decide whether he wanted to go through the communion and begin worshipping the devil or he could choose to do what was right and continue to worship God. One of the main themes of the story is set right there when the character is forced to choose between God and Satan, between good and evil, between what he believes is right and wrong.
             The setting of the story begins in the quaint village of Salem, but most of the story is set in the dark woods that lead Young Goodman Brown to the altar set up for Satan. When the traveler and Brown set forth on their journey Hawthorne describes where they were headed as the, "...deep dusk in the forest, and deepest in that part of it where these two were journeying." To the best of Brown's knowledge, this is not where Puritans often journeyed. The darkness of the forest also reflected the darkness of Brown's sin. He felt guilty for what he was doing and it reflected the darkness of the townspeople in which he worshipped God with every Sunday. It was an evil place and showed that the traveler and Brown (originally) had an evil mission.
             Young Goodman Brown is the main character throughout the st...