Canterbury Outline

• The structure as a whole helped to get the theme and main points across in the end. 
• Each part (I, II, III, IV, V,VI) had a purpose and usually a problem: first needing a wife, he asks her to marry, taking away the kids-twice, divorcing her, the end of the story and a closing. 
• Chaucer used heavy use of direct characterization for Griselda throughout the story then proves it through indirect characterization in her reactions to Walters tests
• The ending flat out states what the storyteller wants you to get out of the story: no matter whatever life throws at you, you can't complain and have to be accepting and endure. This is projected toward everyone, not only women under the obedience of their husbands. This theme is always going to be relevant. 
• "Everyone in his degree should be steadfast when in adversary as was Griselda