Although they had similar ideas of greed, their stories had different ways to get it, and their outcomes were also noticeably different. In the Wife of Bath’s tale, the husband had a beautiful wife and was happy, but the Pardoner’s tale, the men died over money.[TS6-Contrast]. At the end of the Wife of Bath’s tale, for the wrong reasons the knight had a beautiful wife, he originally didn’t love until she was beautiful, but he lived happily after that.[CE11]. “And when the knight saw truly that she was so fair and so young, he clasped her in his two arms for joy, his heart bathed in a bath of bliss. A thousand times in a row he kissed her. And she obeyed him in all that might cause him delight or pleasure.”[E11]. Throughout her tale she explained
