Analyze how Chaucer builds the Pardoner's character so he seems blissfully unaware of how others see him, using "The Prologue," the "Pardoner's...

To
answer this question, it is necessary to establish that the Pardoner is "blissfully
unaware" of how he is perceived, and I don't see this as an accurate analysis. He certainly
is unconcerned about how he is perceived, but he also seems perfectly aware. Let's explore and
find out what case, if any, can be made for his being "blissfully
unaware."

The most relevant part of the narrator's description of the
Pardoner in the "General" is that he wears his hair long and let's it fall in
ungroomed clumps down his back. He wears no clerical hood, only the clerical cap of his order.
This is very significant to understanding the Pardoner because there were strict codes of dress
and grooming general to England and specific to the many clerical orders. Monks and friars, etc,
(1) had to wear  their hair short; (2) had to wear their hoods in public; (3) had to wear their
skull caps under their hoods. The Pardoner knowingly and deliberately, without any concern for
the breach of protocol or...