The question I want to explore in my analysis of the Old Man in the “Pardoner’s Tale” is this: Who is the Old Man and what is his significance in the tale? After my own analysis and preliminary research the answer I propose is: The Old Man in Geoffrey Chaucer’s the Pardoner's Tale can be interpreted in many ways: prominently as Death himself, The Wandering Jew, or simply as a plain old man. Ultimately, the Old Man cannot be pinned as having a single symbolic meaning; however, textual evidence convincingly supports that the Old Man is an allegory of the Pardoner that heightens our understanding of him as a person. Getting to the root of the real meaning of the Old Man in the “Pardoner’s Tale” has been explored by numbers of writers and