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A story by Nathaniel Hawthorne about a young preacher who wears a veil as a sign of his own sin and the sinfulness of humanity. The veil shocks and isolates his congregation, who try to guess the reason for his mysterious behavior.
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The sexton stood in the porch of Milford meeting-house pulling lustily at the bell-rope. The old people of the village came stooping along the street. Children with bright faces tripped merrily beside their parents or mimicked a graver gait in the conscious dignity of their Sunday clothes. Spruce bachelors looked sidelong at the pretty maidens, and...
\"But what has good Parson Hooper got upon his face?\" cried the sexton, in astonishment. \"Are you sure it is our parson?\" inquired Goodman Gray of the sexton. \"Of a certainty it is good Mr. Hooper,\" replied the sexton. \"He was to have exchanged pulpits with Parson Shute of Westbury, but Parson Shute sent to excuse himself yesterday, being to ...
All within hearing immediately turned about and beheld the semblance of Mr. Hooper pacing slowly his meditative way toward the meeting-house. With one accord they started, expressing more wonder than if some strange minister were coming to dust the cushions of Mr. Hooper's pulpit.
Such was the effect of this simple piece of crape that more than one woman of delicate nerves was forced to leave the meeting-house. Yet perhaps the pale-faced congregation was almost as fearful a sight to the minister as his black veil to them.
Mr. Hooper had the reputation of a good preacher, but not an energetic one: he strove to win his people heavenward by mild, persuasive influences rather than to drive them thither by the thunders of the word. The sermon which he now delivered was marked by the same characteristics of style and manner as the general series of his pulpit oratory, but...
That night the handsomest couple in Milford village were to be joined in wedlock. Though reckoned a melancholy man, Mr. Hooper had a placid cheerfulness for such occasions which often excited a sympathetic smile where livelier merriment would have been thrown away. There was no quality of his disposition which made him more beloved than this. The c...
After performing the ceremony Mr. Hooper raised a glass of wine to his lips, wishing happiness to the new-married couple in a strain of mild pleasantry that ought to have brightened the features of the guests like a cheerful gleam from the hearth. At that instant, catching a glimpse of his figure in the looking-glass, the black veil involved his ow...
The next day the whole village of Milford talked of little else than Parson Hooper's black veil. That, and the mystery concealed behind it, supplied a topic for discussion between acquaintances meeting in the street and good women gossipping at their open windows. It was the first item of news that the tavernkeeper told to his guests. The children ...
She made no reply, but covered her eyes with her hand and turned to leave the room. He rushed forward and caught her arm.
She withdrew her arm from his grasp and slowly departed, pausing at the door to give one long, shuddering gaze that seemed almost to penetrate the mystery of the black veil. But even amid his grief Mr. Hooper smiled to think that only a material emblem had separated him from happiness, though the horrors which it shadowed forth must be drawn darkly...
From that time no attempts were made to remove Mr. Hooper's black veil or by a direct appeal to discover the secret which it was supposed to hide. By persons who claimed a superiority to popular prejudice it was reckoned merely an eccentric whim, such as often mingles with the sober actions of men otherwise rational and tinges them all with its own...
Among all its bad influences, the black veil had the one desirable effect of making its wearer a very efficient clergyman. By the aid of his mysterious emblemfor there was no other apparent causehe became a man of awful power over souls that were in agony for sin. His converts always regarded him with a dread peculiar to themselves, affirming, thou...
Feb 27, 2021 · A summary and analysis of the short story 'The Minister's Black Veil', which explores the theme of sin and its consequences. The minister wears a black veil to symbolize the hidden sins of all humans, and dies without revealing his own secret.
"The Minister's Black Veil" is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was first published in the 1836 edition of The Token and Atlantic Souvenir , edited by Samuel Goodrich . It later appeared in Twice-Told Tales , a collection of short stories by Hawthorne published in 1837.
A Puritan minister wears a black veil that covers his face and causes confusion and fear in his parish. Read the full text, analysis, and study guide of this gothic tale that explores sin, morality, and self-sacrifice.
A summary of the short story about a Puritan minister who wears a black veil that covers his face. The veil causes fear, speculation, and conversion in the town of Milford, and reveals a dark secret on his deathbed.
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minister. A sad smile gleamed faintly from beneath the black veil, and flickered about his mouth, glimmering as he disappeared. “How strange,” said a lady, “that a simple black veil, such as any woman might wear on her bonnet, should become such a terrible thing on Mr. Hooper’s face!”
