One might assume that the person telling the story has a lot to do with the story they're telling. This is the case in the Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales." In the tale of "The Pardoner's", the voice tells a tale dealing with his famous preach; "Radix malorum est Cupiditas." In English, "The root of all evil is Greed." An ironic distinction can be made with what a "Pardoner" is known to be, the character (the voice/Pardoner), and the tale that he tells.
Through the Prologue of the Pardoner's Tale one can say that he lives up to his name. As the "Webster" dictionary states, "a medieval ecclesiastic authorized to raise money for religious works by
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