'The Merchant's Tale': Seeing, Knowing and Believing

Author / Editor
Grove, Robin.

Title
'The Merchant's Tale': Seeing, Knowing and Believing

Published
Critical Review 18 (1976): 23-38.

Description
Beauty and cynicism co-exist in MerT: we feel the characters capable of tenderness and right self-affirmation as well as nastiness; January's abandoning the knowledge his recovery brings shows that we see more truly by rejecting "knowing" on the Merchant's terms.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale.