Young Goodman Brown Questions Answers

1. I believe Hawthorne's purpose for writing the story is so people can understand that alot of "good" people can have a "dark" side or past and nightmares can feel so real.
2. I do agree that Faith's name is Faith. Yes, it does fit her personality because she's caring and loves her husband. Brown seems to have lost true faith in his wife in the end of the story because he didn't greet her back.
3. The pink ribbons signify innocence and the good meaning Faith is a good person. 
4. Everything Brown witnessed was real, a figment of his imagination, and something conjured by evil, the man to a walk in the dark forest for crying out loud. I say all this because in the story it mentions "There may be a devilish Indian behind every tree," said Goodman Brown to himself; and he glanced fearfully behind him, as he added, "What if the devil himself should be at my very elbow!" then he meets another man with a staff that looks like a real snake.
5.  The old man was the evil one, the devil himself. The textual clues that told me this was "beheld the figure of a man, in grave and decent attire" "with a tremor in his voice, caused by the sudden appearance of his companion" "But the only thing about him, that could be fixed upon as remarkable, was his staff, which bore the likeness of a great black snake" " I helped your grandfather, the constable, when he lashed the Quaker woman so smartly through the streets of Salem".
6. The staff represents a snake and snakes represent evil temptation, the evilness that can convince people to sin. The staff is a primary motivator that lead brown onward. 
7.  If Young Goodman Brown didn't go into the forest that night to run an errand, his life would be totally different, he instead of knowing how close evil is all around him, he'd be happy and cheerful thinking all around him is good/pure. He would still have Faith of course. He would still fully trust his wife, Faith, and his fellow townspeople.