Symbols in “Young Goodman Brown”
Do the following:
1) Find and document (give context &
paragraph #) the occurrences of the
symbols listed below.
 “Young”
 Faith
 “Goodman”
 Salem
 the staff/walking
stick
 the night or
darkness
 the forest/woods
 the path
 the fire
2) Answer the following questions:
• What connotations can be associated
with each word or phrase?
• Is each symbol cultural or contextual?
• What does each symbolize?
• How is each symbol important to the
short story as a whole? (Its moral,
theme, etc…)