YGB

The guide plays the evil side that leads young goodman brown into temptation where he does think he should be going into. The guide resembles him it is stated that he could pass as his father. This might be for extra sense of trust for young goodman brown or it could be a view of the future of what could happen. The guide convinces him to keep going by telling him stories of his father doing the same routes and other respectable people that have been in the same area as him, this could all be a lie just to get him to do what he wants him to do. The people he keeps running into are all important people to Brown and people who he wants to keep his reputation for.