7.3

How does the friar use language to reverse his role (and trick the woman)? What is the reality of these "titles" the characters hold?

The friar is able to sleep with the woman, clearly through trickery. However, language is his tool in doing so. He compares the closeness of the child's relationship to him (this godfather) and her husband... he differentiates roles in reguard to the child, but reasons that because the each take care of different aspects in the child's life, he should be treated like her husband. The woman DOES NOT have wit in this tale, only when it does come to trickery and fooling her husband (not logic wit). Titles such as the "god-father" the actual "father" and even religion become irrelevant. Each uses one for the advantage of the other, and are not the typical, "genuine" roles you would expect to hold.

8.8

What are Zeppa's intentions?DO you feel they are justified?

Rather than look at this tale as being tricker, I thought it was more of a revenge plot. Zeppa creates a scene where his friend who betrayed him is EVEN MORE embarrassed/ upset than when Zeppa initially finds his wife having the affair. This creates an understanding between then men, although Spinelloccio's wife is most hidden in the dark about the whole situation. In the end, the two are able to be amicable only because they experienced each other's aggravation, and they all have "embraced" one another equally.