The Canterbury Tales: The Miller's Tale Characters

John the carpenter, while admittedly short on brains, is probably the most sympathetic of the four major characters in "The Miller's Tale." After all, he's the only one who doesn't cheat or trick s...

Alisoun, John's wife, Nicholas's lover, and a reputed local beauty, is the only character in "The Miller's Tale" who goes apparently unpunished at its conclusion. In her portrait at the beginning o...

Nicholas is the poor young scholar who rents a room in John's house. He sets his sights on Alisoun and fairly quickly manages to get her into bed. Nicholas is the mover and shaker behind most of th...

Since "The Miller's Tale" is supposed to be an answer to "The Knight's Tale," and in "The Knight's Tale" we had a love triangle of a damsel and two knights (who, we should mention, were virtually i...