Dec 4

7.3- How do we see the woman's role as the negative in the story?
- The woman is committing adultery as we have seen a thousand times in The Decameron. However the deceit falls much deeper in the fact that she lies to her husband. The sin of the cloth is down played in that the wife is not caught because she lies about the son having worms, and in fact the brother helped to exorcise him.
7.4- How do we again see the woman played is the villain in the situation?
- The wife tricks her husband by pretending to throw herself down the well. This is a a reasonable thing to do when the husband drunkenly locks her out of the house. However the fault falls upon her when she gets back into the house and uses lies to yell to the neighbors. We see her as evil when she makes him out to be more unreasonable than he is.