How does Hawthorne use irony in "Young Goodman Brown" to illustrate the hypocrisy of the Puritans? What characters act in ways that are against the...

As an /, 's
short story "" makes
ironic use of the symbolic figures in the narrative as well as
verbal and
dramatic  to depict the Puritan hypocrisy.  For instance, Young Goodman Brown's
name
itself certainly has a an ironic twist put upon its meaning as the
narrator remarks that
Brown possesses "a considerable resemblance to the
traveller with the snakelike staff. 
Later on, this resemblance is
underscored by the witch Goody Cloyse, who remarks that the young
man is made
"in the very image of my old gossip, Goodman Brown," a remark that

contradicts the traveller comment that he has been

"as well acquainted with [his] family as with
ever a one among the Puitans; and
that's no trifle to say."