Is this story about an inward psychological journey where Goodman Brown discovers evil in himself but refuses to acknowledge it?

I
respectfully disagree with the previous poster.

In my view,does not exhibit
the ability to confront the evil and hypocrisy around him and, for all his troubles, does not
emerge any stronger or wiser at the end of the story.

Rather than confront
the evil and hypocrisy around him, the title character hides from that very confrontation. See,
for example, this instance of an encounter in the woods:

"Goodman Brown
heard the tramp of horses along the road, and deemed it advisable to conceal himself within the
verge of the forest, conscious of the guilty purpose that had brought him thither, though now so
happily turned from it."

As I see the matter, at the end of the story
Young Goodman Brown is much worse...