Through means of reversal, Chaucer leads his main female character down the road of maleness. ... Chaucer has come under critical disapproval for not adhering to socially prescribed gender roles for feminity in his character WB. ... The Wife's main thesis of her sermon is the "woe in marriage". ... The one weakness that comes forward in the WB character is when she steps out of the male role back into the female role. ... WB's awakening occurs as Jankyn reads to her from his "book of evil wives". ...

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