Canaday, Nicholas, Jr. "Hawthorne's Minister and the Veiling Deceptions of Self," Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 4, No. 1, Fall, 1966, pp. 135-42.

Canaday argues that Hooper's donning of the veil reveals his excessive pride, a sin which Hawthorne criticizes in his character more than critics have realized.

Crews, Frederick. The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes, Oxford University Press, 1966, pp. 106-11.

Crews explores issues of sexual intimacy in Hawthorne's work. He maintains that Hooper wears the veil as a pretext for breaking off his marriage to Elizabeth.

Dryden, Edgar A. "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.

Dryden examines Hawthorne's footnote to the subtitle and finds that, instead of clarifying the meaning of Hooper's veil, the parable of Mr. Moody only makes that meaning more obscure.

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