So This Guy Goes For A Walk...

My first thoughts from this reading was that the story was similar to the story of Adam and Eve.  The snake in both stories was very quiet, mischievous and evil.  Both stories were also very interesting in their own unique way.  The old man was telling Goodman Brown lots of good things about what he has done in the past and how nothing will go wrong, similar to how the snake in Adam and Eve told Eve that nothing will go wrong and everything will be fine.  And what happens, Adam and Eve are banished from the Garden of Eden.