Nathaniel Hawthorne has a brilliant method of connecting his works. When
             closely examining the stories, "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Minister's Black
             Veil," one can see these similarities. Hawthorne uses colors, secret sins, and gloomy
             deaths to carefully tie a bow with the ribbons of these stories.
             The first similarity between "Young Goodman Brown, " and "The Minister's
             Black Veil'" is the obvious color usage. Hawthorne uses the colors' symbolic meaning to
             convey subliminal ideas or thoughts toward objects and characters in his stories. In
             "Young Goodman Brown," the color brown is used to give one a feeling of gloom or
             uncleanness toward the main character, Goodman Brown. Hawthorne casts this
             awareness to his readers in the very beginning contrasting the characters actions.
             Goodman Brown is portrayed as a good person, trying to fight the evils by, "sitting
             himself on down on a stump of a tree, and refusing to go any further" (1239). Brown tells
             the devil, "too far, too far!" as they walk deeper into the forest (1237). He states that he
             and his ancestors are ,"a race of honest men and good Christians" (1237). Unfortunately,
             in the end, the brown in him or the dirtiness in him surfaces when he precedes with the
             devil. "And maddened with despair, so that he laughed loud and long, did goodman
             Brown grasp his staff and set forth again" (1241). Brown later rejects God saying, "what
             God doth the wizard pray to?" (1244). His brownness appeared in the author's words
             when describing him as becoming "a darkly meditative" man. (1244) Such gloom and
             uncleanness is portrayed in, "The Minister's Black Veil" through the color black. The
             black veil that Reverend Hooper wore is described as a "gloomy shade" (1253).
             Hawthorne uses th...