<P> The Franklin is doubtless poking gentle fun with his tale of the naive squire Aurelias . </P> <P> The springtime imagery from the beginning of the General Prologue re-emerges in the description of the Squire . </P> <P> Susan Schibanoff asserts that the Squire's feminization should make him a prime target for patriarchal disapprobation . The apparent inability to perceive the Squire's enslavement to females, and consequent emasculation, she says, is contrary to the model (Hansen's) which opposes courtliness to patriarchy as diametrical opposites . </P> <P> Further Schibanoff contends that the Squire's feminization is exonerated not because of the lack of homoerotic overtones, but because it is alibied by the Pardoner . Thus Chaucer "appropriates the queer other" of the Pardoner to authorise the Squire's "feminized markers of power ." </P>

Summarize the narrator's description of the squire