While reading Parts 3 and 4, I couldn't help but keep thinking about how odd it was that a lady in the castle that had conveniently been so welcoming to Sir Gawain, goes into his room every morning and announces that he may do whatever he wants to her. Of course, since he is a noble and gentlemanly knight, he simply only talks with her and only kisses her when she makes the move to, but I found this situation to be really kind of ironic considering the fact that he and the lord of the castle had just had sex with a lot of women after he arrives. Despite going to mass and confession every day, he had no reservations about having sex with random women before, so what changed?
Why is his sense of morality suddenly different? Did he have some sort of feeling that he shouldn't sleep with this woman (since we later find out that she is the Green Knight's wife)?
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