In the story “The Minister's Black Veil,” Nathaniel Hawthorne tells of Mr. Hooper's black veil and the words that can describe between him and the veil. Hawthorne demonstrates how a black veil can describe many words. Through the story, Hawthorne introduces the reader to Mr. Hooper, a parson of the Milford meetinghouse and a gentlemanly person, who wears a black headscarf. Therefore, Mr. Hooper rejects his finance and his people, because they ask him to move the veil, but he doesn't want to do it. In "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mr. Hooper's black veil symbolizes sins, darkness and secrecy to determine the sins he cannot tell anyone, the darkness around his face and neighbors and secrecy on the black veil. At the beginning of the story, Mr. Hooper comes out wearing a black veil, representing the sins he cannot tell anyone about. Wrapped across his forehead and hanging over his face, Mr. Hooper wears a black veil. Elizabeth exhorted, “Beloved and respected as you are, there may be whispers that you have hid your face under the consciousness of a secret sin” (Hawthorne 269). Her fiancé says that in the black veil there could be the awareness of a secret sin. Furthermore, he is a parson in the Milford meetinghouse and a gentlemanly person, so without the veil, Hooper would be a typical minister, "guilty of the sins peculiar to every human being, but holier than most" (Boone par.7) . He would be a typical minister guilty of the sins typical of every human being without the black veil. Furthermore, Boone said, “If he confesses his sin, community can occur” (Boone par.16). If he confesses his sin regarding the black veil, all the neighbors will hate him. Finally, he said, “so, the veil is a figure of speech: it constantly means, it constantly tells people about the possibility of Hooper's sin” (Boone par.11). Mr. Hooper's veil says he is trying not to tell about the sins related to the black veil. In conclusion, every people has sins that cannot be told to anyone like Mr. Hooper. Next, the minister's black veil symbolizes the darkness around his face and his neighbors. His body trembled; his lips turned white and rushed into darkness. He said: “Know, therefore, that this veil is a type and a symbol, and I am bound to wear it always, both in light and in darkness, in solitude and before the gaze of multitudes, and as with strangers, so with the my familiar friends” In this black veil of light and darkness, he is destined to always wear it.