Chaucer's Speech In The Wife Of Bath

Through the structure of her speech, Chaucer characterizes the Wife of Bath as loquacious. When the she goes on many tangents as she is trying to get a point across, it becomes apparent that the Wife of Bath is a character that loves to talk. For example when she is telling her tale and digresses to talk about Ovid, she says, “If you wish to hear the rest of the tale, [...] When this knight whom this tale specially concerns.” (l 126-127). It is clear that she not only got sidetracked by interjecting another story into her original one, but realizes it as well. The way the author organizes her speech by making her digress shows that she has a lot to say and likes to say it. The structure of deviating from her from her course of conversation