J.Hunter-"Young Goodman Brown"

After reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," the question he asks at the end of the story, "Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting?," to me was a way of Hawthorne putting in a very important meaning or meanings to the story. So by answering this weeks assignment question, I do think the narrator's question makes a difference in the story. My first point is dealing with the story itself. If Goodman's experience of seeing everyone in his village follow the traveler he spoke with, who was supposedly the devil really drove him to become paranoid I really don't think it would change the story as much because Goodman being the Christian he is I think even a dream of such would put him on edge. In real world I think the narrator can be making the case on how the devil can get to us and the effects he can have.