Chaucers The Wife Of Bath

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by boasting of her experience of men, "Experience, though noon auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynogh for me, To speke of wo that is in mariage." (Chaucer, ll. 1).
Chaucer begins his description of the wife by telling us she is somewhat deaf. By being deaf she can not hear what other say about her. He says this deafness is a pity and this sympathy from Chaucer may be because if she could hear what others might say about her then she might change her ways. He goes on and tells that she is an excellent seamstress and weaver. This implies that she may have had nice, expensive looking clothes and the looks of a true woman of the times (Dalcourt, pp. 1).
Chaucer continues on to say that she makes it a point to be the first to give an offering in church and that she often gives generously. By being first, the wife makes sure that everybody sees her giving that large amounts of money. If she was last to give, then people may have already left or had not been paying attention ...

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