Answer:
A. What we begin to understand about the fellow traveler is that his intentions are evil.
He is the devil and has been helping Goodman Brown's family <u>to do wrong and hide the sins of the Puritans.
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Absolutely the entire Puritan community was a sinner and had made a pact with the devil, but they hid behind a non-existent faith towards God, punishing those who they believed sinners and posing as pures when in fact they were not.
<u>What the devil did was to incite them to sin</u>, saying that it was in the nature of human beings.
B. Through this character, Hawthorne tries to demonstrate the hypocrisy behind the Puritan community. And how <u>even Goodman Brown himself</u>, who finally did not agree to surrender to sin, <u>was a hypocrite</u>. He was more afraid that the community would know that he had seen everything and judged him a sinner, than realizing that everything was a farce.
This story shows the punishments that occurred against innocent people by a community that called itself pure and believed it could "do its own justice" as if they were saints, when in reality <u>they were more sinners than the people they were punishing.</u>