Characterization in “Young Goodman Brown”The dialogue, action, and motivation revolve around the characters in the story (Abrams 32-33). The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate the types of characters present in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," whether they are static or dynamic, flat or round, and represented through performance or narrative. There are only three well-developed, or three-dimensional characters, in this tale, and they are the protagonist, Goodman Brown, and his wife, Faith, and the traveling companion or devil. Faith is, of course, less developed than her husband's; much of his development comes from inference rather than action, dialogue, and explicitly expressed motivation as in the case of Goodman Brown. From the beginning of the story, Goodman is a person of action: “THE YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN went out at sunset, into the street of Salem village, but threw back his head, after crossing the threshold, to exchange a farewell kiss with his young wife. The reader sees him develop emotionally even as he walks away towards the woods:So they separated; and the young man continued on his way, until, as he was about to turn the corner at the house of worship, he looked back and saw Fede's head still peering out behind him, looking melancholy, despite his pink ribbons ."Poor little Faith!" he thought, for his heart smote him. "How unfortunate I am to leave her with such an errand! She too speaks of dreams. It seemed to me, as she spoke, that there was a troubled expression on her face, as if a dream had warned her of the work to be done this evening. But no, no! To think so would kill him. Well, she is a blessed angel on earth; these grave, respectable and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste ladies and dewy virgins, were men of dissolute lives and women of stained fame. , wretches addicted to every mean and unclean vice, and also suspected of horrible crimes in this essay on “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne we have seen that the narrator's use of the technique of representation presents two dynamic characters, three characters. round and a series of undeveloped static characters. WORKS CITED Brams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms, 7th ed. New York: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1999. Hawthorne, Nathaniel “Young Goodman Brown.” 1835. http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/goodman/goodmantext.htmlWagenknecht, Edward Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Man, His Stories and Novels New York: Continuum Publishing Co., 1989.