Given all the talk lately about veils, I found it interesting that I should just now happen across the Nathaniel Hawthorne short story “The Minister’s Black Veil.” I’m not quite sure what to make of it.
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Given all the talk lately about veils, I found it interesting that I should just now happen across the Nathaniel Hawthorne short story “The Minister’s Black Veil.” I’m not quite sure what to make of it.
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So, we’re all wearing these metaphorical veils. I get it. It’s terrible. But, a metaphorical veil doesn’t obscure your identity on a drivers license.
You shouldn’t make quick work of analyzing that one Mark. That’s one of Hawthorne’s most important and most interpreted works.