The Process of Personality in Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale'

Author / Editor
Murphy, Ann B.

Title
The Process of Personality in Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale'

Published
The Centennial Review 28:3 (1984): 204-22.

Description
The Wife's personality develops through five marriages from a materialistic, mercantile desire for power and wealth to "an earthly form of spiritual transformation through marital love." WBP traces how Allison learns to love and to stop equating money with affection.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.