-Summary: The “Reeve’s Tale” is a revenge tale of two clerks who seek revenge on a miller by participating in unholy actions his wife and daughter, because he cheated them of their flour supply; the two clerks also beat the miller very badly before taking their things, the flour supply that was stolen from them, and then riding off into the morning sunrise.

Essay: The “Reeve’s Tale” was quite disturbing with the many dark actions that took place. The young outsmarted the old in this story, when the two young millers discovered that the old miller cheated them out of their supply of flour and took revenge on him and also managed to get away.
“The clerks then beat him well and left him lying and throwing on their clothes they took their horse and their ground meal and off they went, of course, and as they passed the …show more content…
For one, the “Reeve’s Tale” is a response to the “Miller’s Tale” and in a way is a revenge story. The new tale takes several jabs at the miller using crude scenarios, such as, the scene between one of the clerks and the miller’s daughter. The Reeve is very obscene in the way that he tells his story, and his tale is much more vicious than that of the miller. The Reeve tells his tale, and it is very clearly a direct hit at the Miller because the main character is a miller, the actual Miller does have a wife, and he does cheat people out of their money when counting their grain, the Reeve is literally describing the Miller and his life in an indirect way. The revenge theme of the tale is a very cruel one, first the two clerks participate in a sexual act with the wife and daughter, later, the clerk Alan discovers that the miller has stolen from him. This discovery leads into an altercation between the miller and the clerk, and ends in both clerks beating the miller to a bloody pulp. The “Reeve’s Tale” was not a very enjoyable read but it was very