Gawain

"If I dream about myself, I have two identities, myself as dreamer and myself as character in my dream." Frye page 106

Okay, so I have been reading the four romances in the king and the corpse and I have to say that I have a little character crush on Gawain. What a guy! He is so loyal to his friend Arthur that he agrees to marry a woman who he has never seen. And when he does lay eyes on her, she is the most hideous woman he has ever layed eyes on. Now that is a good friend. Not only does he marry her, but agrees to sleep with her. When she turns into a fair woman. He is such a gentleman that when she tells him to choose whether she is to be beautiful by day or by night, he llets her pick. Nice guy! He says, "Alas the choice is hard. To have you fair at night and no more, that would grieve my heart; but if I should decide to have you fair by day, then at night I should have a scabrouis bed. Fain would I choose the best, yet know not what in this world I shall say. My dear lady, let it be as you would desire it; I rest the choice in your hand. My body and goods, my heart in all, is yours to buy and sell; that I avow before God!"

Gawain is such a great guy! He knows how to woo a lady. He seems to always say and do the right thing.