Young Goodman Brown Community Quotes

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And when he had lived long, and was borne to his grave a hoary corpse, followed by Faith, an aged woman, and children and grandchildren, a goodly procession, besides neighbors not a few, they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone, for his dying hour was gloom. (73)

Here's the thing: Goodman Brown opposes his community without standing outside of it. He's not quite ready to leave the community entirely; he's just going to hate on it from within. And the Salem community has taken a half-measure of its own. Although the Puritans don't reject Brown outright, they realize that he rejects their spirit of hopefulness.