Abstract:In Nathaniel Hawthorne's short novel Young Goodman Brown,the hero Brown made a journey to forest in order to carry out his promise with the evil,actually,this is a spiritual journey for exploring the truth of human world.From the angle of original sin of Puritanism,this journey made him agony because he found the darkness and sin in the deep heart of human beings, as a result,whether death is the way to rescue him contains Hawthorne's consciousness about Puritanism perspective.