The Minister’s Black Veil
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The Minister’s Black Veil

by

Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Black Veil

Without a doubt, the most important symbol in “The Minister’s Black Veil” is the black veil itself, but what it symbolizes is more complicated than it seems to either Hooper or the townspeople. To the…

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