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.”
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