Wife story telling

By telling her own story, though, Kingston mostly finds herself telling the stories of others—those in her family, those around her, and the myths of the Chinese and American cultures between which she is caught. She interweaves these personal stories, family stories, and myths so that they build on one another, both chronologically and thematically. Crucially, she also allows the stories to overlap and contradict one another, without attempting to unify the stories or resolve their discrepancies. Stories are how people understand themselves, and how they relate to others.

Have you ever listened to someone tell a story, over coffee or at a conference, and been absolutely bored to tears? Join the club. Why was that? Chances are — whether you realized it or not — the person was using dynamic storytelling elements. We are all have stories to tell. Stories help us feel not quite so alone in this world.

Before the Wife of Bath tells her tale, she offers in a long prologue a condemnation of celibacy and a lusty account of her five marriages. It is for this prologue that her tale is perhaps best known. The tale concerns a knight accused of rape, whose life shall be spared if in one year he discovers what women most desire.

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