In the shipman's tale money was the main focus of the entire story. There wasn’t a single moment when money wasn’t brought up. The wife makes things difficult when she has her cousin or fling borrow money from themselves. She was trying to trick everyone into giving her more money so she …show more content…
Money can tie anyone together because money even before this time makes people do crazy things just for financial gain. It’s very sad to see how everyone not even just in these two stories make people just do bad things and hurt other people. In some ways, people would be better off without money in their lives. However, these two do have money and they could have handled getting what they wanted a little bit better. However so could all the other tales, that dealt with money and killed for money. Life these days seem just about the same when it deals with money. Money can be a very powerful thing to want and need. Lot’s of people freak out when they find the money and people with money just crave more and more money, it’s like a none ending battle that all human deal with and not just with these