The Minister's Black Veil Essay

In “The Minister's Black Veil,” There is a pastor, Mr. Hooper, who starts wearing a black veil. This disturbs the townspeople and causes them to do outrageous things. Mr. Hooper never tells why he wears the veil, but one reason he wears the veil could be to show that everybody has secrets, everybody has something that they hide from the rest of us. In turns, he wants to prove a point, that we all need to remove our veils, we all need to stop keeping these deep dark secrets from everybody. Why he wants to prove this point is unknown to everybody but him.
As said before, the veil represents that everybody has secrets, everybody has their own black veil. In the text book on page 279 paragraph 4, Mr. Hooper says that everyone has a veil of their own.
Hooper's fiancee leaves him in the text it says “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 between the fondest of lovers” (Common Core Literature, page 281) this quote is saying that we even keep secrets from the people who we hold most dear, and he really seems to care about his fiancee. On the contrary, he is oblivious to the townspeople and how they react to him wearing the veil, he seems not to care about their opinion. The first day, when he wears the veil to church, he goes on like nothing is different, he preaches the sermon like he does every sunday, and then he leaves, almost like he can’t tell that the veil is there. But, during the sermon, the audience stirs and is obviously disturbed by the veil. There are even a few people who stand up and leave durring the sermon. In this story the pastor, Mr Hooper wears a veil to symbolize that everybody has secrets. He keeps the veil on even though the townspeople don’t like it. It even puts him in danger to wear it, but he keeps it on. Or maybe he has a really bad case of acne on his face and wants to hide it from