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“The Minister’s Black Vail A Parable” Nathanial Hawthorne Page 58

“ ‘The is an hour to come,’ said her, ‘ when all of us shall cast aside our veils.”

What is said here is a metaphor for people the walk around and have metaphorical mask that hide there in emotions for the public, where veil is the metaphor for mask. What he is saying in this quotation is that there will be a day when people take off that metaphorical mask. When people take off that metaphorical mask then no one will have anything to hide. This is relevant to the story in that he where’s a veil to express to people physically that they all wear veils that hide their inner thoughts and emotions. In the grand scheme people should were veils for if the world was open then we all would have nothing to hide thus destroying the element of surprise.