Arthurian Romances: Knight of the Cart

I found this particular passage to be somewhat confusing in nature. All of the characters are basically nameless and are only referred to as "Kinghts" "maidens, or girl" all in all it makes for a very confusing plot set up and made me as the reader struggle to determine who was who when the dialogue was taking place. Aside from the awkward structure of this story the narrative style is also much different. In some sections the point of view seems to be first person where as in others there seems to be a narrator. Furthermore the fact that this entire story centers around a knight whom was not shammed but is thought to be because he was without horse and needed a ride is baffling. Why the cart holds so much shame back in this era is strange but whats even more obscure is why, when the knight had this knowledge, he decided to take a ride from the cart driver anyway. When you start to analyze other characters behavior you see that some knights of Arthur's court are depicted rather differently than they have been in previous stories. Sir kay for instance is a manipulating trickster in a way. Being able to get the queen to follow the knight who presented a challenge to the king on page 207-208 was quite a feat, yet he accomplished it with deceit quite nimbly. Sir Kay was also not held with the utmost importance in the stories we read before this one so to see him as the spark that kicks off this story is also very odd.