Comparing Characters In The Canterbury Tales

The comparison of characters in “The Canterbury Tales” varies a lot because of how different all the characters are. Chaucer does a good job letting the reader know who the characters are by describing each one individually. He let’s you know things such as what they’re wearing, what they look like, and sometimes even if he likes them or not. The reeve and the parson are not very similar characters. In the story there’s good and bad people going on the trip for different reasons like, becoming a better person or asking for pardon for being a bad one. The reeve is an old, skinny, yellow faced man. Servant to a farmer, the reeve sometimes steals from his boss and returns what he took as a gift to make himself look good. The reeve isn’t a very