Question

Lines 4–11: Describe the tone of the conversation between the Friar and the Summoner. How do these exchanges affect the portrayals of the pilgrims?

Answer 1

In Chaucer´s Canterbury the The Friar's Tale, a sense of irony is predominant. The exchanges affect the portrayal of the pilgrims in that we understand how Chaucer satirizes the characters. He tells us a plenty  of information about practically all of them.

As a matter of fact,  he seems to know details and events that he would be impossible  have if he were meeting them for the first time. Many of the pilgrims do not deserve respect, but Chaucer never overtly condemns them.    It is just an apparently a way of  discrediting. For example, We learn  much of the negative traits of  the summoners  only by  understanding his ironic style.