Nicholas Canaday, Jr. (essay date 1967)
SOURCE: “Hawthorne's Minister and the Veiling Deceptions of Self,” in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. IV, No. 2, Winter, 1967, pp. 135-42.
[In the following essay, Canaday insists that “The Minister's Black Veil” is not about secret sin so much as it is about “the sin of pride with its demoniac pretensions and inhuman results.”]
Critics have treated the sin of the Reverend Mr. Hooper in “The Minister's Black Veil” with a kind of tentativeness not observed in the general critical view of many...
Source: Short Story Criticism, ©2000 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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