In the story, The Canterbury Tales the Nun, Prioress is trying to be very delicate. She sang her prayers in a fine fall pitch voice through her nose. “She sang a service with a fine intoning through her nose” (126-127). Her singing was sort of funny to some people. She was learning incorrectly French from Stratford-atte -Bowe. “She spoke daintily in French, extremely after the school of Stratford -atte-Bowe French in the Paris style she did not know” (128-130). She did not know what she was saying and did not know she was speaking it inaccurately. She was greedy she didn’t let any food fall from her mouth or dip her fingers in a sauce to deep, “no morsel from her lips did she let fall; nor dipped her fingers in the sauce to deep” (132-133). Being too greedy is a way of learning self-control.…show more content… She was soft hearted and very concerned. She was very sensitive with tender feelings. “As for sympathies and tender feelings, she was charitably solicitous“(146-147). She would shed a tear if she saw a mouse caught in a trap rather I was bleeding or not. “She used to weep if she saw a mouse caught in a trap. If it were dead or bleeding” (148-149). She was sentimental when it came down to her dog. “she had a little dog she would be feeding with roasted flesh, or milk, or fine white bread and bitterly she wept if one was dead”(150-152). As Edward Abbey once said “Sentiment without action is the ruin of the
