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A 5 page paper which examines the personality and function of the Host as revealed by his description in the “General Prologue” and the part he plays before and after the individual tales. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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all these tales together, and keeps the structure cohesive. This is the character of the affable Host, Harry Bailly (or Bailey), the proprietor of the pilgrims favorite local watering
hole, the Tabard Inn. It is Bailly whose proposition provides the books overall premise and inspires the storytelling. He is the person whose commentary links all the stories
together and his observations provide an intriguing counterpoint to the perspectives of the narrator, believed to be Chaucer himself. Edward I. Condren observed in his literary criticism, "Harry Bailly
and Chaucer-the-Pilgrim are complete opposites -- the one gregarious, intolerant of values other than his own, yet unable to understand even his own; the other demure, fully able to understand
the standards of others, though unable to discriminate among them, yet holding no criteria of his own" (3). Harry Bailly is not the glue who holds the
text together, he is also representative of the times in which the book was written, particularly in terms of the significance of the social hierarchy on England during the Middle
Ages. After the narrator painstakingly introduces the many and varied cast of characters in the General Prologue, Harry Bailly takes over the remainder of the text, both literally as well
as figuratively speaking. According to the narrator, Bailly "cut such a figure, all in all, / He might have been a marshal in a hall. / He was a
big man, and his eyes bulged wide. / No sturdier citizen lived in all Cheapside, / Lacking no trace of manhood, bold in speech, / Prudent, and well versed in
what life can teach, / And with all this he was a jovial man" (Chaucer 1450 731-737). His personality was that of the quintessential tavern owner. He was
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