It All Comes Together in 'The Merchant's Tale'

Author / Editor
McMullen, Carol.

Title
It All Comes Together in 'The Merchant's Tale'

Published
[Jay Ruud, ed.] Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota ([Aberdeen, S.D.: Northern State University, 1989), pp. 73-83.

Description
Argues that the "moral lesson" of MerT is "self-deception and spiritual blindness" which result from January's efforts to "create a paradise on earth."

Alternative Title
Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale