“The next morning, young Goodman Brown came slowly into the street of Salem village, staring around him like a bewildered man. The good old minister was taking a walk along the graveyard, to get an appetite for breakfast and meditate his sermon, and bestowed a blessing, as he passed, on Goodman Brown. He shrank from the venerable saint, as if to avoid an anathema. Old Deacon Gookin was at domestic worship, and the holy words of his prayer were heard through the open window. “What God doth the wizard pray to?” quoth Goodman Brown. Goody Cloyse, that excellent old Christian, stood in the early sunshine, at her own lattice, catechising a little girl, who had brought her a pint of morning’s milk. Goodman Brown snatched away the child, as from the grasp of the fiend himself. Turning the corner by the meeting-house, he spied the head of Faith, with the pink ribbons, gazing anxiously forth, and bursting into such joy at sight of him, that she skipt along the street, and almost kissed her husband before the whole village. But Goodman Brown looked sternly and sadly into her face, and passed on without a greeting.”
In this passage when Goodman Brown comes back into Salem village in the morning, he does not trust anyone in the village anymore. It can first be seen when Deacon Gookin gives Goodman a blessing and prays for him, but Goodman refuses the blessing and then calls Gookin a wizard. Then as he keeps walking he takes a girl away from Goody Cloyse who was quizzing her on bible verses. The dead giveaway would be when he see his wife Faith, who he loved and did not even greet her. This passage shows how much Goodman has changed during his time in the forest by the action he does when he walks into the village the next day and just loses all trust he has in people. Goodman even lost the feeling he had for his wife who he loved a lot before the time he spent in the forest.
