The Wife of Bath then tells the other pilgrims what has happened to her five husbands. She says, “Tho housbonds that I hadde, As three of hem were goode, and two were badde. The three men were goode, and riche, and olde”[Norton,121].  In other words, the first three husbands were good to her; they were old and had money to take care of her.  The fourth husband she had no control over.  He was a reveler who loved to party. The Wife of Bath has a problem with him because he has a mistress. To get even with him, she tries to make him jealous.  She torments him so much in life that she prays he is now in heaven.  “The fifth husband she truly loved but there was one problem; he was abusive”[Norton,128].  The Wife of Bath says he is the reason she is deaf in one ear.

 As we can see, the Wife of Bath has many experiences in her life. It is strange to me to see how a woman of the fourteenth century was able to act the way she did.  Back then, women had no rights; they had  arranged marriages; and they could not say anything about it.  Men were superior and dominated women.  The way the Wife of Bath acted in the fourteenth century is more the way the women act today in the twentieth century