Young Goodman Brown By Nathaniel Hawthorne

Abstract 
Young Goodman Brown is going on a journey, leaving his wife Faith behind. He encounters many other good people of the town all going to this evil place, which confuses Goodman. His curiosity gets the best of him, so he follows the others to see where they're going and finds that they are participating in some kind of wicked practices.

Journal
The first thing that came to my mind when reading this story was confusion. I was trying to figure out why Young Goodman Brown was leaving his wife and where he was going? The story  goes on to tell how he is taking a journey and he's meeting people along that way that were part of his past or are part of his life right now. As Goodman goes on this journey he is affected by his superego because he knows that he's approaching an area that there is evil, and this goes against his Puritan morals, but he still does it anyways. This is his ego telling him that it's okay to see what the others are doing. I feel like Goodman feels he is doing no wrong and nothing will happen if he just watches what goes on at this ceremony everyone else is attending. His instinct or id throughout this story is to turn around and go back home to Faith, his wife that he feels terrible for leaving. The others convince him otherwise, they say that he should walk with them on this path because Goodman's friends did the same and they returned by midnight back home. By the others saying he should travel on this path it justifies he's doing no wrong, which is Young Goodman Brown's ego. Throughout this story Goodman struggles on what he is to do and I feel as a reader I struggle to understand also. The outcome of this story makes me even more confused because I don't know whether to think that this was all a dream or is this story and actual real life occurrence for Young Goodman Brown.