Katy Mosley

Resonse to Chaney:
I believe the minister wore his black veil because of a self-committed sin that is darker than anyone can imagine. I believe this not only because they alluded to it in the story by having multiple theories from the townspeople saying that they thought he wore it to hide his hidden sin just like the rest of them. The minister said that the rest of the town, like him, had sins hidden behind a veil that they weren't admitting. The other evidence I have is that Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer of the Scarlet Letter also had the theme of "hidden sin" when the minister in the story had a secret affair with a woman and she wore the sin in the form of a scarlet A, this could also be a theme of a hidden sin in the form of a black veil.