At the very moment these warm thoughts are reinforcing his decision to return to Salem, he overhears a conversation between the aforementioned men, wherein they give testimony to their wicked connection with the devil.  Once again, Hawthorne heaves evidence toward an interpretation onto the back of the reader; only to force him or her to forever carry that baggage by never allowing them to use it.                                                        In the end, young Goodman Brown’s journey changes him into “a stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man….”  (Hawthorne/p.945). It was a journey into the ambiguous realm of good and evil; moreover, it was a journey into the heart of humankind, wherein the ambiguity of good and evil was explored.