SOURCE: "Through a Glass Darkly: 'The Minister's Black Veil' as Parable," in New Essays on Hawthorne's Major Tales, edited by Millicent Bell, Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. 133-50.
In the following essay, Dryden considers "The Minister's Black Veil" as a fictitious parable rather than a fictionalized historic event
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