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The knights at the round table express their solidarity by wearing a green girdle as Gawain does. Why does Gawain wear the green girdle?

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Since Gawain fails to exchange the girdle with Bertilak as the terms of the men's agreement dictate, it also symbolizes to the reader Gawain's desperate desire to survive at the expense of his code of honor.

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