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In the following excerpt,
“Were the veil but cast aside, [the townspeople] might speak freely of it, but not till then”
This is what the veil symbolizes.
What is he limits information about the true order of events/the narrator tells the story out of order?
In the following excerpt,
“[the veil] threw its obscurity between it and the holy page as he read the Scriptures”
this is what the veil symbolizes
Based on “The Devil and Tom Walker,” this is one of the major social influences of this period that Irving criticizes.