In many cases, sin becomes guilt in seconds, even though the repercussions of that sin may never end. In the short story "Young Goodman Brown", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the devil he haunts a man with his startling words, and those words leave the young man unable to be himself for the rest of his life Goodman Brown portrays him as the average Puritan with an unknown desire to talk to the devil a simple walk he takes in the forest with a new companion who enlightens him about the problems of his community. The problem is that he is not the only one traveling with his companion, and this means that nothing is as he thought it shows that it is through his own sin and guilt that he is able. of seeing the sin within his community, past and present. In the short story, the realization that Goodman Brown's family is not as pure as he thought occurs because of his sinful actions that what he is doing is bad, and he realizes that it is not what a good Puritan does. This interaction b...