Somnour Summoner In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

In Geoffrey Chaucer's, The Canterbury Tales, the author portrays the Somnour Summoner as having a poor appearance and impure role in a church. The summoner is unclean, “he had narrow eyes With scaled browes blake and a piled berd. Of his visage children were afraid (Chaucer 627-628).” Chaucer describes this man to appear intimidating. His scabby brows and piled beard is displeasing described. The children were frightened of his physical looks; he is not a pleasurable view. Alongside having a dreadful physical appearance, he commits sinful actions, “he goes after the yonge girles of the diocese, And knew hir conseil, and was al hir reed (665-666).” This man is of the church and is seducing girls by trying to flirt with them, showing his poor