Plot Elements in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight The most striking feature of the organization of plot elements in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the fact that the meaning of poetry is staged by the very form of narration. The three main plot elements of this tale: the beheading game, the temptation, and the exchange of winnings are connected in a way that helps convey the meaning of the poem. The reader quickly realizes the interdependence between the temptation plot and the exchange. of the win graph. The bedroom scenes are related to the hunting scenes, so each must be understood in reference to the other. On each of the three days Sir Gawain's behavior corresponds to that of the animal that had been killed that day. The first day he is cautious, like a deer; in the second he looks more like a wild boar; and in the third he is cunning, like a fox. These aren't the only similarities between the two plot elements. Hunting is generally used in literature as a metaphor for the search for love, that is, courtship. This metaphor was probably already known in the Middle Ages and was used by the poet Gawain. The most important tool used to make readers aware of the interdependence of these two plot elements is the technique of narration. Great care is taken to make sure the reader understands that the bedroom scenes and the hunting scenes take place at the same time. The narrative leaps from the castle to the forest “Chasing wild pigs till the sunlight bends./All day with this feat they chase away time/While our lonely knight so amiable lies in his bed.”(l 1467-1469) . Each bedroom scene is "inserted" into a hunting scene - which emphasizes its simultaneity. The decapitation game is also connected to the other two elements of the plot - but in a way that becomes visible to the reader only after reading the entire text of the poem. . At first, the castle episode appears to be an interlude between the two parts of the Decapitation Game. The reader awaits the climax, that is, the second part of the Decapitation Game. In the end it turns out that the real test has already happened and that the Game itself turns out to be a disappointment.