Adjectives Downgrading The Pardoner

In the short story of Canterbury Tales, Chaucer the Poet and Chaucer the Pilgrim have a mutual dislike towards the Pardoner. In the prologue, Chaucer the Poet describes the Pardoner with negative descriptions and has nothing positive to say about him. While the Pardoner tells his tail Chaucer the Pilgrim insults him and his line of work. Both Chaucers speak negatively about the Pardoners looks, line of work, and the man he is. Chaucer the Poet writes in the prologue about the Pardoner’s description. Chaucer uses diminishing adjectives downgrading the Pardoner as a person. He compares the Pardoner to animals when he describes the Pardoner’s hair as thin like “rat-tails” and says he has bulging eyeballs like a hare. Chaucer the Poet degrades