Nathaniel Hawthorne was an interesting novelist. His writings usually contain some form of tension. For example, the tension between the minister and the people in the village in “The Minister’s Black Veil.” Hawthorne also liked to focus on one particular character in his novels and show how different he/she is from others. One of those characters was the minister in “The Minister’s Black Veil.” Hawthorne uses the minister to show how people …showed first 75 words of 633 total…

…showed last 75 words of 633 total…and it leads to his isolation from the community. I didn’t find one answer to the question about why he’s using a black veil to cover his face. Probably, there isn’t just one answer. Perhaps Hawthorne wants us to find the answer that we like. Whatever the answer might be, the minister is truly an interesting character. Bibliography Wayne Franklin et al. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York: Norton & Company, 1999.