"The Minister's Black Veil"

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This paper looks at how the writer believes Nathaniel Hawthorne wanted his story, "The Minister's Black Veil," to be read. The thesis is made that Hawthorne is acting as his protagonist/main character Hooper in his attempts to trick the reader, much as the story's church people are fooled. Not only is the primary source, the short story itself, referenced, but a secondary source, a scholarly journal article, is used, as well.

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"In his recent scholarly journal article entitled "The Narrative Suppression: Sin, Secrecy, and Subjectivity in `The Minister's Black Veil,'" Paul Emmett cites many instances in Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic short story, "The Minister's Black Veil," in which he believes there are underlying sexual and criminal secrets that Hawthorne and his main character, Reverend Hooper, are hiding. Emmett takes Edgar Allan Poe's timeless assertion that Hawthorne and Hooper are concealing "a crime of dark dye" (Emmett 101) and runs with it, in a modern, Freudian manner, hoping to uncover all sorts of tabloid-worthy details and dirty deeds."

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