Rosemary Franklin (essay date 1985)
SOURCE: “‘The Minister's Black Veil’: A Parable,” in The American Transcendental Quarterly: A Journal of New England Writers, No. 56, March, 1985, pp. 55-63.
[In the following essay, Franklin concentrates on Hawthorne's designation and subtitle of “The Minister's Black Veil” as a parable, speculating on the moral and esoteric implications this may have played in the author's imagery, symbolism, and thematic concerns.]
“The Minister's Black Veil” has provoked as wide a range of interpretations as...
Source: Short Story Criticism, ©2000 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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