The Pardoner's Tale .vs. the Tale of Three Brothers

The Pardoner's Tale and the Tale of the Three Brothers are alike because they both take a journey to battle Death. They come up with separate strategies to get what they want. In the Pardoner's Tale, the three men come up with strategies to kill each other to keep all  of the money that they find under a tree. In the Tale of the Three Brothers,the three men also go on a journey to battle Death. They allegedly defeated Death and they all got an item of their choice and used that opportunity to get something they want, whether it be a loved one, or to be free from Death's harmful grip. Additionally, in both stories, all three of the characters die and are taken by Death.
     However, the characters all die for different reasons. The three brothers all die because the items that they received all had loopholes except for one, who died on his own account of handing down his invisibility cloak. In contrast, in the Pardoner's Tale, all three die from their greedy plans to take the money for themselves. In the Tale of the Three Brothers, the characters die from their ignorance and Death tricking them. In the Pardoner's Tale, the three characters died because their greedy plans to kill one another worked.