what pleases
             him, whether it is knocking heads or ignoring his wife's
             infidelities. These differences in character foreshadow the
             differences in their tales. They both tell similar dirty stories
             but the nature varies greatly. It is the Miller's good-humor
             that trans-forms the chivalric tale of the Knight into an
             account of adultery that is both bawdy and hi-larious. As
             will be discussed in greater detail in this essay, it is the
             Reeve's introversion that causes him to recite his
             mean-spirited tale of adultery as punishment.
             II. Outward Manifestations of Suppressed Emotions
             The Reeve's vindictiveness and mood swings are
             based in his being repeatedly silenced and his subsequent
             suppression of emotions. Oswald speaks three times in
             Fragment I, and on the first occasion his wishes are ignored,
             on the second he is told to speak of a more amusing subject,
             and he is finally allowed to speak on the third,
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