the sin of avarice

In life everyone is searching for something or someone. Sometimes we just do not realize we have found it until it is too late. What we find may not always be what we are looking for. This is what happens in the “Pardoner’s Tale” by Geoffry Chaucer, the three rioters are searching for death in the physical form. They do find death or rather it finds them in the very end of the story. …showed first 75 words of 538 total…

…showed last 75 words of 538 total…it. Whoever the old man may be he is right about death being under that tree. The rioters are never aware of what they really find because of their greed. The Pardoner states that money is the root of all evil and proves it in his tale. This story leaves the reader wondering whether death is a physical form such as the old man, greed as in the gold, or deep within all of us.