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A 7 pages essay that contrasts and compares Chaucer's The Reeve's Tale with Boccaccio's sixth story on the ninth day of his Decameron. The writer describes and analyzes Chaucer's changes. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the stories that various characters relate one another. Several of the stories in the Canterbury Tales are strikingly similar and two of these are Chaucers The Reeves Tale and the
Sixth Story told on the Ninth Day of Boccaccios Decameron. While the stories differ generally in tone, examination of both stories shows
that there principal difference is how Chaucer changed the details of this tale as related by Boccaccio in order to reflect his own intent and purpose, which was to further
his characterization of the Reeve, as Chaucer tailors the story to show the Reeves angry reaction to the Millers Tale, which portrayed a carpenter as the bunt of humor.
The narrator in Chaucers novel explains that while everyone else found the Millers Tale to be quite funny, Oswald the Reeve had "a little anger...still lingering in his heart" due
to the fact that he was a "carpenter by trade" (Chaucer 3863). First of all, in order to appreciate Chaucers changes, it
is necessary to examine the structure of Boccaccios tale. The Sixth Story told on the ninth day of Boccaccios Decameron is related by Pamphilus, who begins by introducing the protagonist
as an "honest man" who kept a "little hut for the entertainment of travelers, serving them with meat and drink" but seldom offering them lodging, unless they were known to
him (Boccaccio 464). This man also has a wife and two children, "one an infant and the other a girl of about fifteen or sixteen years of age, but unmarried"
(Boccaccio 464). A young man, Pinuccio, falls in love with the daughter. Their love is mutual and, while he resists temptation initially, his love grows more fervent and he desires
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