The baker’s wife is the unfaithful spouse of the cruel baker who owns Lucius (as a donkey). Her cheating is perhaps what inspires the baker to tell her the story of the fuller’s wife, which demonstrates a negative outcome for infidelity. Nevertheless, in the story of her and the baker, she gets the last word. Though she is caught cheating and thrown out, the baker’s wife gets help from a witch who seems to summon a ghost and coerce the baker into hanging himself.
The Baker’s Wife Quotes in The Golden Ass
The The Golden Ass quotes below are all either spoken by The Baker’s Wife or refer to The Baker’s Wife. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 9
Quotes
As the baker reviewed these indignities, his spouse, for whom insouciant arrogance was by this time second nature, called down curses on the fuller’s wife in the most hateful terms.
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The Baker’s Wife Quotes in The Golden Ass
The The Golden Ass quotes below are all either spoken by The Baker’s Wife or refer to The Baker’s Wife. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Book 9
Quotes
As the baker reviewed these indignities, his spouse, for whom insouciant arrogance was by this time second nature, called down curses on the fuller’s wife in the most hateful terms.
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Explanation and Analysis:
