Before falling asleep, the dreamer was reading the story of Seys and Alcyone, which is also a story about the pain caused by the loss of a loved one. Comparing this story to that of the Knight, the knight has much more in common with Alcyone, a woman, than with Seys the King. Alcyone succumbs to the grief she feels over Seys' death after a period of great anguish. The comparison between these two figures feminizes the Knight because he is compared to Alcyone, who is experiencing a "normal" amount of sadness as a woman in this situation. She is expected to cry outwardly, freer to express her emotions because she is a woman. As a man, the Knight should be strong and composed, two characteristics of a “traditional” man. The Knight also states throughout his description and elegy of Whyte that she was everything to him. As a knight (and perhaps also as the English prince John of Gaunt (Chaucer 17)), he should have other important and promising prospects that would make him want to continue living. However, the Knight speaks of ending his life, to which the dreamer responds: “And ye for displeasure shall bite yourselves, / Ye should be moistened in this case” (Chaucer 724-725). After this verse the dreamer continues to talk about several women and a man who ended their lives because they had somehow lost their lovers (726-739). Once again, the dreamer compares the Knight to women,