Revealing Your Own Character in Writing

        Chaucer is the person who wrote the Canterbury Tales and also the one who was on the pilgrimage because the story is written through a first person perspective. I think firstable, Chaucer reveals himself to be an every outgoing and talkative person  in order to get a such good sense of each character's array. He must have a amiable characteristic in order for people to be willing to talk to him.This can be proved by his words, " I'd spoken to them all upon a trip and was soon one with them in fellowship."At the very beginning of the story he mentioned how it is most proper that he should describe to us how each pilgrimage’s personality is, his or her appearance, and their demeanor  as mentioned: " It seems a reasonable thing to say, what their conditions was, the full array of each of them, as it appeared to me." Then he started describing each character in meticulous details. Take for example how Chaucer described the Yeoman: "He wore a coat and hood of green, and peakok-feather arrows, bright and keen and neatly sheathed..." I think this really shows how Chaucer can be a very attentive and observant person. He makes good use of descriptive words and had good insight of a character’s demeanor.

Through his words, it shows that he has a discriminate way of seeing things. For example, Chaucer describes the summoner to be a very ugly looking man with fiery red face and pimples which scares children. He said that  his pimple problem to be one that no ointment could have cured it as mentioned: "His face on fire, like a cherubin, for he had carbuncles..." Chaucer also showed how the summoner brags about his little knowledge of Latin hoping to justify his position as a summoner. Chaucer's discriminating words are those that are quite straightforward.

Chaucer can also be a somewhat humble person. He said in the story to excuse his language for sometimes he may be describing things through his own perspectives: " But first I beg you, in courtesy, not to condemn me. If I speak plainly with no concealings ...however rudely spoken or unfit, or else the tales he tells will be untrue. " But we can clearly see that he is a direct and straight because he wishes to convey the things as what they are without any excessive modifications. It shows that he is determined in his own view about what a true tale should be.He also shows how Chaucer can reason. He wrote, " The things pretended and the phrases new,...and Christ Himself spoke broad in Holy writ, yet there is no scurrility in it." He is trying to reason with people that he is not trying to be rude, but just trying to reveal the truth.