Lines 8 and 9 reveal that the man is

While, in the story there are different characters and each of the person is concerned to be more important to curve each of the story's sections, as the people are connected to the story in a more special way. As, there are number of audiences which are concerned for having a more complete way of understanding the story lines.

In the lines 8 and 9 reveal that the man is specified as the Goodman brown.

As the Goodman brown was the character which was under-consideration while we go through the 8th and 9th line of the story, which made it very clear about the complete sense and information about the character.

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