The Wife of Bath is a story of a woman who is known as a good lover and a widowed wife of five wealthy husbands. She is a strong female character in a time where females were not granted the same respect men have been given. In the story she is labeled as a Feminist character as she tells her story during a pilgrimage. This period of time anti-feminism stereotypes have begun to be developed, it held that women were lustful, dishonest, blabber-mouthed, greedy gold diggers...sound like anyone you know? The Wife of Bath confirms almost all of the stereotypes she confronts during her story, proving that she is in fact a feminist. As she sits there giving her story, she is trying to falsify the stereotypes of woman by saying that's not how women
