Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

In the final meeting between Gawain and the wife, what actions occurred? What point is the author attempting to make about Gawain?

It is for a english project.

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The lady enters Gawain's bedchamber while wearing a lovely and very revealing gown. She wakes him from his sorrowful slumber, as he dreads the impending day of doom at the Green Chapel. Relentless and charming as ever, she kisses him and asks if he is not promised to another lady elsewhere. Gawain denies this, and the lady begs him to leave her a token of remembrance. He has nothing to give her, but she in turn offers him a valuable ring of gold, which he kindly refuses. The lady then offers him a green silk tunic, which he at first refuses, but then she reveals that whoever wears the green girdle cannot be killed. Aware of his impending meeting with the Green Knight, Gawain accepts the girdle, which the lady begs to keep secret. After receiving a third kiss from her that morning, Gawain dresses, confesses his sins to a priest in preparation for his challenge the next day, and then spends the rest of the day in utter merriment.

The author is attempting to reveal that Gawain, like everyone else, can be lured in by romance and temptation. Though he is able to keep his honor in check as far as the lady is concerned...... his acceptance of the girdle, and his failure to tell the lady's husband, does in fact, break the Code of Chivalry.

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight