Question

Read the passage from “The Minister’s Black Veil.” What does the veil symbolize?

Answer 1

The correct answer is A) The veil represents some evil deed hidden in the minister’s past that he is afraid to make public. This makes everyone in his congregation feel that he is a hypocrite.

That is what the veil symbolizes.

We are referring to the story of "The Minister in Black," written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1832.

The villagers in the story believe that the veil obstructs the Minister from the truth. People did not trust him. They believed that the veil hid some terrible past, of a sin he committed in the past and the pain and sorrow that follow him. Located in Massachusets, in the Puritans time, the story refers to topics such as morality, sin, sorrow, and morality.