Starting from the age of twelve she was married to her first husband, by stating that she basically tells the reader that she is very much experienced. From the prologue, the skills to gain power over her husband was handed down from Wife’s mother:
I made pretense that he enchanted me
I dreamt of him all night, I also said,
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With women like Wife running their mouth around town telling secrets are just disagreeing not only the household but also herself in the process. That Wife would go around flirting with men even though her husband is still around. One might say that Chaucer talk about the Wife of Bath is to ridicule her actions. That she put her household in shame. But we also have to think about the fact that this whole story is written from a male perspective. So of course judging by a male point of view she is nothing more than someone that causes trouble and reject her duties. Instead, she should be proper and be doing good indeed to show her female power, which a good deal of might say true