The Story The Black Veil

There are many references to the “black veil” throughout the course of the story. The references of the black changed by first being a “terrible thing” to being a “prevailing wonder” to a “sable veil”. So basically, it went from negative to positive to neutral. The people of the community thought it was strange to do something different. When the minister wore this veil, he got lonely and abandoned from society. In my opinion, it wasn’t weird at all for him to wear this veil. He was trying to make see that everyone has secret sins that only God knows about. They don’t want to face reality, so they hide them. The community changed minds about the black veil throughout the course of the story. At first, they described it as “gloomy shade” and