# Absolon — The Canterbury Tales character guide

> Absolon in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** this jolly Absolon, This Absolon, quoth Absolon

**First appearance:** 0002-the-miller-s-tale

## Who they are

A fastidious parish clerk with golden curls and a squeamish disdain for vulgarity, hopelessly smitten with the carpenter's young wife.

## In the story

### [The Miller's Tale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_canterbury_tales_se/chapters/the-miller-s-tale)

A vain parish clerk who tries to woo Alison and is humiliated.

### [The Miller's Tale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_canterbury_tales_se/chapters/the-tale)

A vain and amorous parish clerk who pursues Alison. He is humiliated when he kisses her backside and later brands Nicholas with a hot coulter.

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