Wife of Bath Inferences 2

1. She doesn't fancy the Church.

"Show me a time or text where God disparages or sets a prohibition upon marriages...Show it to me!" (260)

"And where did he command virginity? Advice is no commandment in my view." (260)

2. She is very opinionated.

"If you will let me speak...please don't be offended by my views." (263)

3. She is self-centered and selfish.

"They'd given me their treasure." ( 264)

4. She takes marriage loosely.

"I have wedded five! Welcome the sicth, whenever he appears. No sooner than one husband's dead and gone some other Christian man shall take me on...I am free to wed...where

it pleases me." (259)

5. She is greedy.

"In bed with them...(they) paid a fee; and then I let them do their nicety." (269)

6. She is controlling.

"I'll have a husband yet who shall be both my debtor and my slave...mine shall be the power over his proper body." (262)

7. She is a feminist.

"No one can be so blod- I mean no man-" (264)

"A knowing wife if she is worth her salt, can always prove her husband is at fault." (264)

8. She is insecure.

"We women hide our faults but let them show once we are safely married." (266)

9. She is educated.

"Sir Ptolemy who, in his Almagest, has set this proverb down..." (267)