Blog Question for over the long weekend:  I want you to think a bit more about how each man's treatment of women affects how we view their character. Were your opinions changed as you got into the story or were your initial opinions validated and justified by the character's behavior? Please apply this same analysis to the end of the story - did the man who deserved to win actually win the woman? What do you think is the moral of the story?

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Jenny did a good job on the blog post. She added many supporting details to her claim, and answered the question throughly. 

i think that this review was very good and she put alot of details and good points in this.  She talks about how the husband watches the wife like a hawk.  She just has many good points like i said

Jenny - excellent first response. Now I want you to think a bit more about the how each man's treatment of women affects how we feel about their character. Were your opinions changed as you got into the story or were your initial opinions of each character validated and justified by the character's behavior? 

             The Carpenter is showed as very jealous in this part of the tale he watches his wife like a hawk and she oviously fears for her life if he would catch her cheating on him. Nicholas the cleric trys really hard here to get to the pretty wife. Eventually he sucessed even though the wife doesn't want to cheat because she is afraid she will die if her husband catches them so they decide that they have to be very quite about it so he doesn't find out. About the Parish Clerk Absolom he tries to get wives by singing to them with his guitar. He goes to the carpenter's house with his guitar outside of their bedroom window to try to sueduce the wife into coming and being with him. As soon as he started singing the Carpenter woke up and got upset. Absolom tried really hard for awhile to try to get the wife, he sent gifts and money everything he could think of. Finally he got ahold of the pretty wife and they agreed to play a trick on the jealous carpenter and if it worked she agreed to sleep with him as well.

How does Chaucer describe each of the characters introduced in the beginning of this tale? (please write on Nicholas the cleric, the carpenter, and the parish clerk Absolom) How does the way Chaucer describes Nicholas' room affect how we feel about him as readers - does it reveal anything about the character? Discuss how each man treats the carpenter's young wife. How does their treatment of the opposite sex affect their characterization and our opinion of them?