The Canterbury Tales: Pilgrams

Question

Discuss literary and social differences in the descriptions of the pilgrims in Chaucer's General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (such as the descriptions of the Knight 43-78 and The Wife of Bath 448-478). 

How are The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale appropriate to the teller of that tale and ironic?

Answer 1

Thus, by making the reader aware of the disconnect between the story and its speaker, The Pardoner's Prologue functions as an ironic frame for the Pardoner's sermon-like account. The Pardoner's Tale is an ironic tale that explores the terrible consequences of gluttony and greed, the vices for which the Pardoner is most notorious.