... very people who soon will be telling their stories with other characters in them. Chaucer's description of each character tells us something about the character's personality, but that we'll also learn something more about the character based on the story he or she tells. (like the Wife of Bath's ). Chaucer tells us much about each pilgrim, not only by telling us what they do ... clothes, attitudes, even their bodies. His audience would compare Chaucer's descriptions against the social stereotypes they knew already about each person's profession or social status or "class". Chaucer's li...

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... personality, maybe a bit of favoritism. The General Prologue provides a profile of each of the pilgrims in such an order that forms social groupings. The Knight, Squyer, and Yeman have a relationship to one another; the Squyer is the Knight's son and the Yeman serves the Knight. The next seven have religion in common and the list goes on. These groups and their descriptions further reveal Chaucer ... 's personality. An Haberdassher and a Carpenter,/ A Webbe, a Dyere, and a Tapicer ... have this same common attribute. Chaucer does not find fault in these men, otherwise he would be looki...

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