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Reeve(The Canterbury Tales)

Personality of Reeve

Reeve's Description

Line 626 best describes his personality because it states that he steals from his master. His entire life is focused on stealing from his master, so that he can add to his treasure.

Choleric means having too much choloer, meaning bad-tempered. This word helps sum up the Reeve. He is a lonely man who is obsessed with wealth and, undoubtedly, bad-tempered to everyone.

The Reeve

  • His hair is very short, he is very thin, he has no beard or stubs, and his legs are extremely slender. He rides a stocky horse on his pilgrimage. A horse dapple-gray & bore named Scot
  • He wore an overcoat of blueish shade(line635)
  • His beard was shaven closely to the skin(606)
  • His shorn hair came abruptly to a stop above his ears, and was docked on top his legs were lean like sticks, no calf(line610)
  • He kept his bins & garnes very trim.(611)

The reeve was a member of the commoners.

George Cluney!!!!! :)

Chaucer believes that the Reeve is a very lonely and greedy man. He believes that he is intelligent due to his plots to retrieve money, but he has no family, no friends, and no companionship. In the prologue it says, "the Reeve was old and choleric and thin, His beard was shaved closely to his skin," (Lines 605-606). This describes that Chaucer's opinion of the Reeve is that he is lonely and greedy because he is very old, bad-tempered man. Without a doubt, he has no children or family, and he keeps himself well-kept and shaven. He does not want to seem poor and will sacrifice companionship for being wealthy.

Sources

http://www.wright.edu/cola/Dept/END/wsuwweb/pageindxs/chaucer.htm

www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/

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