“And she was known as Madam Eglantyne” (125). Throughout the nun’s section in the canterbury tales prolog we come to find out this quote sums up the nun quite nicely. This line encompasses everything the nun is, elegant, well mannered, and caring.
One of the things the nun feels is important is, to be seen among the travelers as elegant. She shows this in the way she eats by not letting her hands get dirty, and in the way she sings hymns. She never dips her hand in too deep in sauce and never lets a piece of food fall from her mouth. When she sings she sings quietly through her nose. In the prolog she is said to be skilled in courtliness, “For courtliness she had a special zest” (136). The narrator notices and comments her elegants when he
One of the things the nun feels is important is, to be seen among the travelers as elegant. She shows this in the way she eats by not letting her hands get dirty, and in the way she sings hymns. She never dips her hand in too deep in sauce and never lets a piece of food fall from her mouth. When she sings she sings quietly through her nose. In the prolog she is said to be skilled in courtliness, “For courtliness she had a special zest” (136). The narrator notices and comments her elegants when he