Examples Of Greed In The Pardoner's Tale

In the short story, The Pardoner’s Tale, Chaucer wrote about three men who went on a journey to conquer death. As the men continued on their way they found a tree, and underneath the tree was “A pile of golden florins on the ground, new coined, eight bushels of them as they thought no longer was it death those fellows sought.” (lines 112-115). The men forgot about their mission to conquer death and focused on getting the gold coins, but the three men did not want to share with one another. The three men let greed get the best of them.

As the men were on their way, they saw a poor old man who greeted them humbly. The three men were rude to the old man when they told him it was time for him to die already. The old man led them on a crooked