the sin of avarice

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…it. Whoever the old man may be he is right about death being under that tree. The rioters are never aware of what they really find because of their greed. The Pardoner states that money is the root of all evil and proves it in his tale. This story leaves the reader wondering whether death is a physical form such as the old man, greed as in the gold, or deep within all of us.