![]() ![]() That everyone sins and tries to but them but that sin will remain with them forever. Hooper felt about the veil and its significant meaning. “Still veiled, they laid him in his coffin, and a veiled corpse they bore him to the grave” (p. Whether or not it is to cover up his or everyone else’s is never told, but by him wearing this black veil caused him to be very secluded from his congregation and caused a lot of talk and gossip around the town.Even after years of wearing it, while lying on his death bed he still would not take it off. Hooper’s face was a symbol for trying to cover up a sin or sins. 393.) The way people looked at him would never be the same. Swathed about his forehead, and hanging down over his face, so low as to be shaken by his breath, Mr. “There was one thing remarkable in his appearance. All of that changed when he showed up to church one Sunday with a black veil on that covered up most of his face. At church he gave very good and meaningful sermons and was just a well respected person. Hooper had many good friends and followers and an assumed soon to be wife. Hooper, who at first was a well liked minister throughout his town. ![]() ![]() In “The Minister’s Black Veil”, the main character Mr. ![]()
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