Moreover, it is Brown’s references to his wife, Faith, that leads even the most amateur eye to recognize her allegorical value. As soon as Brown has left his Faith on the path of his evil journey he thinks of his wife, “Poor little Faith!”; and turns to self deprecation, “What a wretch am I to leave her on such an errand!”  (Hawthorne/p937).  In these lines, the duality of Faith’s allegorical substance is evident.  It is Brown’s self-condemnation that buffs out the questionable dullness in the armored idea of Faith as an allegorical character.  First of all, the reader must ask why Brown denounces himself as a “wretch”.  He explains that he is a “wretch” because he “[left] her on such an errand”.  Is the reader to assume that Brown feels like he should have taken his wife to a meeting with the devil?  Of course not.  Instead, he should have brought his faith with him on his evil journey.