The Nun's Priest's Tale by Chauser

The Nun’s Priest’s is a tale about a widow who had a life full of difficulties and misfortunes. She was a poor peasant woman, advanced in age who was living in a small cottage. Her life was very difficult she had to provide for herself and her two daughters. She didn’t have enough food to eat only what was produced on her land the story state “Milk and dark bread, in which she found no lack, Broiled bacon, and sometimes an egg or two, For she was, as it were, a sort of dairywoman”(lines 2844-2846). She had 3 cows, 3 large sows1 sheep that she called Malle, 7 hens and one cock called Chauntecleer who was the king of the henhouse. In one of my previous post The Clerk’s Tale, I talked about Griselda who before to get married with a rich man face a lot of difficulties and misfortune. I believe Griselda and this widow represent the image of the poor women during the Middle Age, however their lives were different because Griselda had her father and they worked together to feed themselves with what they harvested, but this poor widow did not have anybody to help her. The Nun’s Priest’s widow face a lot of difficulties in her life, however to be poor did not stop her to dance and be a happy woman.