The two scholars see Malyne as a piece of property owned by his father, Symkyn. Therefore, it is this assumption that convinces Aleyn to take what is owed to him after Symkyn robs them of their corn, "Our corn is stolen, sothly, it's na no, / ... / And sin I sal have neen amendement / Agayn my los, I will have a seed” (4183-4186). This supposed physical ownership is now an unofficial legal transaction that makes it easy for Aleyn to rationalize his strength in taking Malyne's body. Tamarah Kohaanski explains: “The explorations about how Chaucer gives his characters more depth and a certain degree of individualism tend to discuss her [Malyne] only in passive terms: not as a character with attributes of her own, but as the object of the actions of other characters. or worries” (228). If Malyne had not been considered Symkyn's property, Aleyn's decision might have been different. But scholars are not the only ones to consider Malyne a property. His grandfather, the town's parish priest, is in control of his future, "For the purpose he had to assume his heir, / Bothe of his catel and his mesuage, / And straunge made him of his marriage" (Chaucer 3978-3980). Malyne has no say in who she marries as her grandfather makes decisions for her dictating the path her future will take. These two separate situations show how Malyne neither controls her own life nor has any say in it, further demonstrating that in the eyes of the males in the tale she is owned by a