Is Browns experience a dream or is it real (and does it matter)? It is about the story "The Young Goodman Brown" by Hawthorne.

Whether
Brown's dark experience in the forest actually happened or was simply a terrifying dream is
purposely ambiguous as Hawthorne encourages the reader to exercise their own interpretation of
the events at the end of the story. While there are certainly elements of Brown's experience
that could actually take place, which include him seeing certain individuals in the forest,
there are other paranormal events to suggest that Brown's experience was simply a bad dream. For
example, Goody Cloyse magically disappears after the mysterious traveler throws his serpentine
staff to the ground. Regardless of whether or not the Black Mass actually took place in the
wilderness, Goodman Brown becomes jaded and suspicious towards the religious leaders in his
community and his young wife. Brown's experience, whether real or imagined, has the same effect
on his perspective as he becomes enlightened to the inherent wickedness inside...