The Cook In Bram Stoker's The Canterbury Tales

In the novel The Canterbury Tales, traveling with the five guildsmen is their cook. The cook, Roger, is known for being able to cook anything and even make a delicious blancmange. The major flaw he is known for having is having an ulcer on his knee causing some of his customers to lose their appetite. In the prologue the Cook enjoyed The Reeve’s Tale and thinks that justice and thinks that the Miller reasonably received what he deserved. The cook offer to tell a funny story that happened in his hometown of London “A tale by me, who am a poor man,” (l.4341). “Now tell on, Roger; look that it be good/For of many a pastry hast thou drawn out the gravy,” (l.4345-46) jokingly the host, Harry Bailly, adds how the cook needs to make up for all …show more content…
He was a good looking man of a stocky build and had stylish long black hair. “He could dance so well and jollily,” (l. 4370) the people of the town gave him the nickname Perkin Reveler, for this matter. He would sing and dance at every wedding feast. He was more interested in being at the bar than of keeping care of the shop he was working at. He spent most of his time in the company of his own sort of people and went with them for dancing, singing, and gambling. The master of the shop came to know about the Perkin Revelers habits when he noticed money missing from the shop-counter. Although the master tolerated Perkin, one day he realized that "Well better is a rotten apple out of the store/Than that it rot al the remnant."
(l. 4006-07). The master decided by this that if he keeps one bad worker it will only corrupt the other workers, this is when he let Perkin Reveler go. However Perkin was not affected by his dismissal and instead he was glad because he was now free from work. Reveler then moved onto freeloading of a person more like he, “Who loved dicing, and revelling, and having fun,” (l. 4421). Perkin Reveler’s new companion had a wife who owned a shop to disguise the true fact that she was an active