Criticism and the Old Man in Chaucer's "Pardoner's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- David, Alfred.
Criticism and the Old Man in Chaucer's "Pardoner's Tale."
- Published
- College English 27 (1965): 39-44.
- Description
- Argues that in PardT the Old Man "reveals the Pardoner's real secret, the joylessness of the life he professes to relish so much." The Pardoner is a "young-old man, and the confrontation between the three rioters and the old man in the tale brings to the surface a moral and psychological conflict," an archetypal struggle also found in such works as Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale