Young Goodman Brown symbolism

Hawthorne uses a lot of symbolism in "Young Goodman Brown". He uses Faith as his wife's name and when he sees her in the forest he says he has lost faith and he actually had lost faith in God because he was giving into his evil spirit. The forest symbolizes evil with its dark and gloomy setting, also that it moves from conscious to unconscious. His name is Young Goodman Brown but he really goes to the evil side. If he really knew the catechism he would know that you can't go throw life without sinning so he wouldn't be so surprised when the people he saw at the witch gathering. I think the guide in this story is Goodman Brown's foil, he is like the devil sitting on his shoulder saying go into the forest. I think that Goodman Brown hides from everyone in the forest because he wants it to remain a secret that he has an evil side, he thinks people would disown him if they find out. I think the author calls him young because he is naive and thinks no one else does evil and also he gives into his temptations. There are probably so many symbols you could talk about it all day.