Grumio is Petruchio's servant, albeit not a very good one. According to The Taming of the Shrew, Grumio says, "Knock at the gate? O heavens! Spake you not these words plain: 'Sirrah, knock me here, rap me here, knock me well, and knock me soundly'? And come you now with 'knocking at the gate'?" (Shakespeare 51). This just shows how bad of a servant he is. Petruchio asked him to knock on the gate, and he thought that Petruchio meant knock as in punch. A good servant knows what their master means, and Grumio didn't. Grumio eventually saw what Petruchio meant, but didn't until later, when it didn't matter. Grumio is not a very good servant, acting ridiculously, because his skull was too thick to understand what Petruchio meant. Petruchio should