An Answer to the Problem of 'The Pardoner's Tale'

Author / Editor
Brandt, Paul R.

Title
An Answer to the Problem of 'The Pardoner's Tale'

Published
Uuniversity of Dayton Review 22:2 (1993-94): 113-21.

Description
Aware of his own failings and mortality, the Pardoner is more honest than the rest of the Pilgrims. He is a "messenger of Death" to them, although they do not know it. The only one without delusions, he is perhaps the "most worthy of forgiveness."

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.