Stage 2 Recasting (no video, stage 1 inadequate topic)

The Clerk
My resetting of the Canterbury Tales was Georgia Tech’s Britain Dining Hall so it is fitting the recasting would be of the Clerk as a Tech student. Just as the Chaucer’s Prologue describes the Clerk as quiet lonely man, my recasting will have the clerk as a very studious type. He will be poorly dressed, as most of his money went to buying the ridiculously priced books for his studies. The narrator of my story will ask him to tell a story not of fraternity gossip nor of drunkenness but of true happiness. The original story begins with a nobleman, Walter, who untraditionally decides to pick his own wife, whom will be of any estate or class. He finds such a woman by the name of Griselde who was beautiful, charitable, and could pass as sure nobility. The two were married, but after the birth of their daughter, Walter decided to test his wife’s love. He faked the baby’s death but instead sent it to live with his sister. Griselde mourned dearly, Walter soothed her with another child, whom Walter faked its death as well. Wlater went as far to test his wife’s loyalty as to declare a necessity for a new wife. The new wedding, Walter asked, was to be planned all by Griselde. She fulfilled his wishes, but at her surprise when the day of the wedding came she was returned her children and Walter told him it was all a test. The Clerk explains the moral being all women should marry with this steadfast loyalty, but what Walter put Griselde through was over the top. The messy Tech genius would begin his story with a rising Georgia Tech professor. Jonathan. He would choose his wife no matter what college she attended. At the “old fashioned hate” football game against UGA, the rising professor, Jonathan, met a hillbilly girl named Sally. He knew right away he was in love. His friends however, were doubtful of her worthiness. Jonathan tested her worthiness with three tests. The first, he had his friend hit on her at a party and invite her to join him in a private room. Not knowing it was a test, Sally, slapped the man and exclaimed she was taken. For the second test, Jonathan took Sally on a date, but acted the exact opposite of his normal self. He spat on the ground, did not open doors for her, did not pay for anything, and was obnoxious during dinner. At the end of the night, she forgave him, for she knew he was acting different. The third and most extreme test of her faithfulness, Jonathan got his friend from School Board to offer Sally her dream job of teaching fourth graders under one condition, she must never see Jonathan again. She turned down the job and apologized to the School Board Director, her dream job was no match for spending the rest of her life with Jonathan. Jonathan was so happy with her success in all these tests he praised and confessed to Sally of his misbehavior. They lived happily ever after, and all of Britain was stunned with awe by the Tech genius’ story of loyalty and love.