The Wife of Bath has been married five times and is apparently looking for husband number six. She is very outspoken and opinionated; not exactly what I would have thought any woman back then to be like. It seems to me that she likes to talk and argue. It seems that she thinks that women wish to have authority over men. The tale centers around the question “what do women want?,” and it seems to …showed first 75 words of 575 total…

…showed last 75 words of 575 total…and she gives him a choice: he can have her ugly and loyal, or beautiful and unfaithful. He finally tells her to choose whatever she thinks is best. I think that all along she was saying that as long as the men gave her what she wanted, she would be nice and give them what they wanted. If they didn’t give her what she wanted she was going to be very ugly to them.