Young Goodman Brown questions

1)  Hawthorne's purpose for writing this story is to see how someones Allusion can affect a whole scene at some point.Once young Goodman starts realizing that he is alone he starts hallucinating and that's what causes him to be afraid where as the falling action was the ribbons because that's where brown starts thinking about faith.
2)I don't agree that faiths name its her appropriately because towards the end they reveal her as the devil but I also think it was a surprising story because i think it was all in brown's imagination because he kept thinking about the devil while he was in a dark place. In the beginning of the story he does because that was his whole faith but then he ends up not trusting her because he believes he saw her at the ceremony and when he comes back to her she doesn't seem to change but he does due to his believing that she was there with him.
3) I think the ribbons signified her because she was wearing the ribbons which made him think that she might've been with the devil too but It also shows how everyone's might've thought she was going to be part of the devil According to the scene.
4) I think everything brown experience was a figment of his imagination because in the begging of the story he was afraid to show up to the ceremony because it started with faith not wanting to go which caused  him to be more afraid then he was and I believe that since he was in a forest all alone and afraid he could've just imagined everything he saw while he was walking.
5) I think the old man represent every human being is capable of becoming evil because the old man  represent the time going by as he became evil  .In he passage the old man explains how he knew his father and his mother who were Christians and many others meaning he was once a christian but because he was going to this ceremony may be he had turned evil after all he knew Christians and he didn't seem to care as he was turning evil.
6)The staff represents the walking stick which has a serpent that is so life like it seems to move but I also think that its just his imagination and mind messing with him because he was afraid.
7) If brown has not ventured into the forest his life would be different because he wouldn't be as afraid and he wouldn't start imagining things for example faith wouldn't be the evil along with the other people he encounter with.