Reflections in a Golden Florin: Chaucer's Narcissistic Pardoner

Author / Editor
Fritz, Donald W.

Title
Reflections in a Golden Florin: Chaucer's Narcissistic Pardoner

Published
Chaucer Review 21 (1987): 338-59.

Description
The Jungian "puer aeternus" concept clarifies the relationship between the Pardoner and the Host, who fills the role of "senex." The Knight's (negative) intervention reveals him as a positive "senex" figure.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.