The wife of Bath is one of the characters going on a penegrinage to Canterbury that Geoffrey Chaucer introduces into the prologue to the tales.
Right from the title the reader understand that it refers to the woman status and that the characters on town is Bath, a touristic resort of England. The characterization is organized in two rhyming-couples . The introduction of the character underlines that the woman by the alliteration of sound ‘w’ The narrator informs the reader that she comes from Bath and that she was unfortunately deaf. There for night from the start the main piece of information the reader brings with her /him is that the wife of Bath is a worthy person. The insistence on the repetition of the ‘w’ sound underlines that the introductory peculiar of the woman is her value, immediately followed by the narrator is reference to her ability in ‘meaning cloth’. Such ability also results from the comparison between ‘her bent’ and the skills of the best clothes makers in the countries.
The intelligent reader immediately realized the narrator likes underlining her great and positive results, She is not only worthy but she has ‘so great a bent’ v.3, she ‘bettered’.
All this choice underlined the narrator intention to make the reader understand that al she does is better than anybody-else’s. The idea is reinforced even in the woman behavior in church. the expression ‘ not a dame dared’ highlights, also thanks to the alliteration at sound ‘d’ the ambitions and arrogant attitode of the dame.Once again the narrator exploits the singularity of the character resorting to superlative expressions. ‘In all the parish’ to created an ascending climax to bring the character in the fore front. The narrator also reports the dame’s reaction if anybody had the courage to go before her. She wasn’t ready to accept that and she become furious. This explains for her arrogant attitude. The dame’s desperate desired to come to the fore front is well ended by the synctaction construction of line 7 where the position of the subjects pronoun ‘she’ result peuatal. In addiction her angry reaction is well expressed by the alliteration and the cesura that makes ‘did’ to be a stressed word. What’s more the line 7 communicates on indirect comparison between ‘they’ and ‘she’. It sounds as there were an incessant need of the dame always to be the first, to be superior, to be more important, more skilled then everybody-else that makes her the ‘worthy’ woman she is.
Then from the line 9 Chaucer moves to the description of her clothes and her appearance.
Her clothes are of good quality "fun scarlet reed" and her shoes are "moister and new": the effect is perhaps to advertise her and her wealth, rather than attempt uncharacteristic elegance.
Her clothing symbolizes to the reader that she is not timid or shy and also shows off her expertise as a weaver, that she take attention on her appearance and that she is rich enough to afford to wear so elegantly.
Chaucer describe the Wife quite distinctly. His descriptions of her facial and bodily features are sexually suggestive. The features that Chaucer pays attention to describing should be noticed. The narrator describes her physical appearance describing her clothes, legs, feet, hips, and most importantly her gap-tooth, which during that time (according to The Wife), symbolized sensuality and lust.
The first impression that you gets from her face, she is impudent, and her presumptuous underling her nobility.
The narrator discusses how she is a devoted Christian who goes on pilgrimages often. This may make the reader believe that she is a religious woman, but the reader later sees that the Wife's reason to go on these pilgrimages is not due to religion. The narrator says again: A worthy woman all her life and he continues telling about her past husbands, infact he says that she got married five time but consider.    
In the same way that she had a lot of company, the Wife of Bath has visited a lot of towns, travelling around the world: she has gone three times to Jerusalem, probably on pilgrimage, but she also reached Rome, Bolougne, St James of Compostella and Cologne and she was skilled in wandering. The reader could make some suggestions, abuts she travel. First because she like travelling, second because during this trips she neet her lovers.
Chaucer adds that she has a gap between her teeth, but the reader hasn’t to think that it is a bed think. During the fourteenth century, having a gap between the teeth was symbolic of a sensual nature. She is more interested in love than anything. She wears a hat that was similar at a shield. But everything she wears, captures the attention. She wears also a long mantel that covers her large hips, that the narrator refers to in order to emphasize her attraction. He also emphasizes that she had “Housbondes at chirche dore she hadde five”, which meant that she has been married five times. She is also described as knowing all the " remedies of love" (Norton 92), since she is so experienced with men. One other important element in the portrayal of the Wife is that she is deaf in one ear.
Finally Chaucer describes her in the company of pilgrims, saying that she likes laughing and chatting, and in particular she is an expert in love affairs.