This was shocking to Young Goodman Brown because everyone in town who claimed to be Christian was here worshiping the devil. The symbolic part of the story is that all people will sin and Jesus sinned too. But in Goodman Brown, anyone who has sinned cannot be trusted because they follow the devil. The devil is near the altar and in front of a basin similar to a large bowl, but what was inside: “Did it contain water, reddened by the lurid light? or was it blood?" (12). For the devil would mark them with the liquid from the basin. Goodman Brown shouted “Faith! Faith! The husband shouted: look up to heaven and resist the evil one” (12). Goodman Brown did not he knew if Faith heard him. This conflict occurs when Goodman Brown discovers that everyone worshiped the devil and that he was the only one who remained faithful to his religion. This is ironic because there is no one in the world who has not sinned, and the fact that Goodman Brown thinks he is the one and only one who has not sinned is the reason this is the case.