Similarities Between Wearing The Veil In The Scarlet Letter

One Sunday Parson Hooper came into church wearing a black veil. Everyone was surprised to see him with the black veil on because he was the pastor of the church. Seeing him with the veil on made some people very uncomfortable because they were not used to that kind of behavior from their pastor. It made one woman so uncomfortable that she walked out of the church. In addition to her walking many of the members started looking around to see if anyone knows why in the world that he was wearing a black veil. Even though the minister wore a black veil, he still had a reason to wear it. Pastor Hooper wore the black veil because he did something that he should not have done, so he wore the veil because he was ashamed of what he had done. “It cannot be” (40) Hooper was trying to tell Elizabeth that it was not possible for him to take off the Veil because he did not want her seeing …show more content…
The only difference between the two is Hooper wore the veil because he wanted to wear the veil and Hester Prynne was force to wear a big red A on her clothing to symbol adulterer. The difference between these Hawthorne stories is Hester really did commit a sin because she had physical relationship with someone she was not married to. The other similarity that these stories have is there is a pastor who is being call sinners. However, at the end of “Minister’s Black Veil” the pastor was given a chance to take off the veil and explain why he had been wearing it all those years, but he choose to take the secret to his grave. In addition, at the end of “The Scarlet Letter” Hester Prynne was given a chance to come clean about who Pear’s father was; however, she did tell anyone who he was. Next, the pastor finally told everyone he was Pearl father. Even though the pastor went through a hard time dealing with his situation, own his, own he wore the veil for the rest of his