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The Wife of Bath
- married 5 times with many affairs
- presents self as someone who loves marriage and sex
- takes pleasure in rich attire, talking, and arguing
- deaf in one ear and has gap between her front teeth (considered attractive in Chaucer’s time)
- has traveled on pilgrimages to Jerusalem three times and elsewhere in Europe as well
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Pardoner
- granted papal indulgences
- collected profits for himself
- excels in fraud, carrying bag full of fake relics
- has long, greasy, yellow hair and is beardless
- has a gift for singing and preaching whenever he finds himself inside a church
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The Miller
- Stout and brawny, has a wart on his nose, big mouth
- enjoys overturning all conventions
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Prioress
- modest and quiet
- aspires to have exquisite taste
- table manners are dainty
- knows French
- dresses well
- charitable and compassionate
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Monk
- cares little for the Rule
- devotion is to hunting and eating
- large, loud, and well clad in hunting boots and furs
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Friar
- ready to befriend young women or rich men who might need his services
- actively administers the sacraments in his town, especially marriage and confession
- accepts bribes
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Merchant
- trades in furs and other cloths, mostly from Flanders
- part of a powerful and wealthy class
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Reeve
- performs his job shrewdly
- vassals under his command are kept in line
- steals from his master
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