About The Pardoner From the Canterbury Tales

The Pardoner The Pardoner from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a man of physical deformity and of superior wit. First of all, the Pardoner has several physical deformities or abnormalities. Starting with his hair, the Pardoner “had hair as yellow as wax, / Hanging down smoothly like a hank of flax. / In driblets fell his locks behind his head / Down to his shoulders which they overspread; / Thinly the fell, like rat tails, one by …

…the Pardoner can collect more money in a day than a church can collect in a month, however he knows that his guilty of conning people out of their money, and he candidly acknowledges that while he preaches against all kinds of sin, he himself indulges in various vices and begs from the poor to make a fine living. In his tale the Pardoner tries to show that money is the root of all evil.