Young Good Man Brown is really a story telling us how he goes through death. What I see is Brown laying in the hospital fighting or giving up in life. When the author says he goes for a walk it probably means, he is on his way to heaven or hell. Then when he reaches the forest, that is when it is time to make his decision. Now he probably does not or does know that which ever side he chooses may impact his soul but first tests. In the reading, Brown comes to an obstacle, something like a pop quiz although he is literally risking his life, a test to which the God or the Devil will take him. Now its sort of a battle between them, God and Devil, because either of them have so many souls. Anyways, Brown is one who takes through the process of death really and what's on the other side. This test can state whether Brown is a good person or not. So then the test brings in everything he has been through or had experienced or have been or is still going through. Which means its bringing u...