BRITISH LIT HELP PLEASEE!!!
Read these lines from the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and answer the question.
At money-changing he could make a crown.
his worthy man kept all his wits well set;
There was no one could say he was in debt,
So well he governed all his trade affairs
With bargains and with borrowings and with shares.
Indeed, he was a worthy man withal,
Which best identifies what makes this passage ironic?
A. The Merchant's financial reality makes him an unworthy man according to Medieval standards.
B. As a representative of the rising Middle Class, the Merchant's lack of debt is implausible.
C. The Merchant's inability to manage money makes him unfit to be considered a member of the rising Middle Class.
D. As a representative of the bourgeois class, the Merchant's materialism is out of place.