In “The Minister's Black Veil,” Nathaniel Hawthorne describes how a Puritan pastor's black veil aroused collective fear in his parishioners, and how the symbol of the black veil in the real world gives rise to many interpretations in the imaginary world of the parishioners who look at it. If Reverend Hooper chooses voluntary isolation through the black veil, his parishioners will fear and distance themselves from him because they feel that the black veil sees through the evil sins hidden in their actions and thoughts. Whether Hooper wore the black veil out of sense of guilt or symbolic meaning, the fact that he did not remove the veil during the Sunday service at Milford Church, at the funeral, at the wedding, and even until his death and burial in the grave probably suggests that all humans are sinners, the universality of sin. In this way, in that Hawthorne is a writer who explores the problems of sin and evil deep within human consciousness and deals with the impact of sin on human psychology rather than sin itself, “The Minister's Black Veil” is worth recommending reading to readers interested in early Puritan literature in the United States and Hawthorn's works.