A Sketch of the Miller's Tale

During the Miller's tale, Absoloun's beautiful wife, Alisoun, had an affair with another man named Nicholas. Then Nicholas tricks Absoloun to spend the night at the barn, so he could sleep with Alisoun. Later on, Nicholas farts in Absoloun's face and is burned with a hot poker in his rear end. After a while, Absoloun found out about the affair and Alisoun left him for Nicholas. She threw him out the house and let Nicholas move in with her two weeks later.

Alisoun kept continuing her affair with Nicholas, while still married to Absoloun, the carpenter. Absoloun swore to avenge his wife's inter-marital affair by telling the other carpenters at work. Also, he became really depressed about his separation with his wife. His co-workers knew that he loved his wife so dearly and she didn't even take the time to acknowledge him or even his feelings. Also, she didn't even care about his feelings whatsoever.

A few weeks later, Alisoun and Nicholas got into an argument of their affair and Alisoun complained of how "bored" she was with him. Nicholas asked her if she still loved and cared of Absoloun, she said "Yes, I do." The reason why she said that was because Absoloun provided for her by putting a roof over a head, feeding and clothing her. Then she confessed to Nicholas that he only satisfied her sexually, which made her feel better but couldn't replace the love she had for her husband.

Nicholas later parted ways with Alisoun after she told him the truth; so he moved out of her home and he said "Goodbye, Alisoun." Alisoun realized that she'd been wrong for what she'd done to her husband. So, she went around looking forAbsoloun. She then went to his workplace and asked where he was at. They said "At the barn where he's been staying at for over a month". Later, Alisoun rode a horse to go find her husband.

After riding over 5 miles from the carpentry, Alisoun found her husband feeding the animals outside the barn. She yelled "Absoloun, I'm sorry for what I've done." "Can you please forgive me??" Absoloun looked up and saw his wife apologizing to him. He ran out of the field and told Alisoun how much he loved her. She said "I love you too, my husband." "Nothing shall tear us apart." After that, the couple held hands and went inside the barn, leaving the horse on the fields eating grass.