"OOH" "AAH" "Jajaja"

The drunk Miller decides he will tell a tale. I imagine the scene like this:
Everybody is in a bar, a cantine kind of bar, cheering and drinking beer and wine. Some are brave enough to tell a tale, both for the fun of it and to brag. The knight, as to be expected comes first, most of what he says sound like BS but definitely a very knighty tale. Then the miller, who did not want to be left behind stands up, so drunk he even says “And therfore if that I mysspeke or seye, Wyte it the ale of Southwerk, I you preye.” (Prologue, lines 3139-3140) And begins to tell his tale with no embarrassment, whatsoever. The noblemen are in the cantine listening too, and the rest of the village, aware of what every person will say and if it involves them or hoping not be on spotlight for any mistake of sin they’ve committed. It is gossip! Pure gossip.

The Miller wants to proof that he can have tale just as the knight has tales and that they are as well interesting. It reminds me of my friends, drunk, trying to tell an anecdote and inventing half of it partly because they are drunk and partly because they want to make it interesting. The whole scene reminds me of a bunch of people getting drunk and gossiping about each others lives and lies and truths surge from the tales causing “ooh”s and “aah”s form the listeners.

Redundantly The Miller’s Tale if far off the Knight’s Tale. It is a joke. And may be that the miller, apart from wanting to claim his status, (and he does as a miller indeed) he wants to be funny. “This Nicholas anon leet fle a fart As greet as it had been a thonder-dent,” (Tale, lines 3806-3807) This is hilarious. Any story with a fart in it is hilarious. The miller did end up being funny, but further away from the nobility of a Knight.