The Merchant's Wife

This story describes a merchant's wife who used manipulation to get what she wanted. She is a capricious woman who likes to spend money on trivial things.Through her games she made her husband looked as a selfish person in the eyes of the monk (lines 161-162), in order to get the money she needed. The wife betrayed her husband by agreeing to sleep with the monk. However, the merchant thought of the monk as a brother; this men betrayed him and the word of God. This story as well as the movie, "The Name of the Rose," used the monk as a symbol of some members of the church in medieval times who would not do what they were sworn to do and break all of God's Codes.