Cantebury_Tales

Cantebury Tales The Cantebury Tales is a collection of good stories, a snap shot, and a picture frozen in time of the Middle Ages. Geoffrey Chaucer often known as the father of English poetry gives us a look into life in the Middle Ages. The characters in the story pass many of the same characteristics of modern people. The Merchant, the Skipper, and the Franklin are much like certain people in today’s society. The Merchant is much like a trader on Wall Street “ he was an expert at dabbling in exchanges.” (P.112 line 288) The Merchant is a finely dressed man wearing a multicolored dress. Stockbrokers today must wear the finest suits and look respectable to their clients so they can sell as many stocks as possible at a premium price. The Merchant made it seem like he was very wealthy “his wits to work none knew he was in debt.” (P.112 line 290) People who trade stocks today may one day be on top of the world and the next day owe everyone an amount of money. The Merchant cheated people by negotiating them out of their money, stock brokers cheat by cantebury, tales, people, skipper, merchant, man, franklin, ahab, today, stock, much, line, life, great, edwards, characteristics, out, one, money, modern, market, lots, large, house, captain, world, work, wealthy, very, takes, stocks, reveals, prisoners, physical, p112