In "Young Goodman Brown," what characters act in ways against the Puritan ideals?

In Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," if the perception of
the witch-meeting is what Goodman Brown remembers, then all the characters have acted in
way against Puritan ideals of behavior that is exemplary.  The problem is, however,
whether Goodman Brown has fallen asleep in the forest and merely dreamed all that has
transpired, or whether it has all actually occurred.  This ambiguity is never fully
resolved in Hawthorne' story.  For, despite what has occurred, Goodman Brown has lost
his faith and become hereafter

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a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a
desperate man...from the night of that fearful
dream.

If, then, what occured
has been real, all the characters in the narrative have strayed from the ideals of
Puritanism.

1. The traveler, of course, is the
   devil


2. Goody Cloyse, who rides past Goodman, is a witch
   herself, albeit Goodman's catechism teacher.


3. Deacon
   Gookin is a black mass enthusiast, saying he would rather attend the witch-meeting than
   an ordination of a minister.


4. The minister of the black
   mass certainly violates the precepts of
   Puritanism.

Regarding Faith's disobedience
there is ambiguity, however, as is among the proselytes and is about to have the satanic
mark of baptism laid upon her forehead when Goodman urges her to look to heaven,
but "[W]hether Faith obeyed he knew not."