Wife of Bath Working Her Truth

I have been waiting for the Wife of Bath and she’s here! Words cannot accurately express how much I love her. She’s one of those characters that has so much depth and it’s always so fascinating to read through all her layers to see how she became this bad-ass woman. Girlfriend is not afraid to break the mold and fit things towards her agenda. Taking Scripture and interpreting it so that she is absolved of marrying five times? That’s a bold move to just stomp on those double standards. Perhaps my favorite part after her little spiel about marriage is her actively talking about the crap women go through when tied to a man. She notes that men will often choose wives for a variety of vain reasons but then moan and gripe about her whether she’s rich, poor, ugly, pretty. Women can’t win in the world, but despite all the gender constraints on the Wife of Bath, she continues to do her thing and make the system work for her rather than against her.