From the canterbury tales, the wife of bath's tale
the unhappy midas grew a splendid pair/of retrices " in the wife of bath's tale for what purpose does the narrator tell the story of midas?
a. to prove that women cannot remain romantically faithful.
b. to show that women cannot bear to look at deformity
c. to demonstrate that women cannot tell an untruth.
d. to illustrate that woman can not keep a secret

The answer is: D. to illustrate that woman can not keep a secret

In the story of Midas from “The Wife of Bath's Tale”, Midas’ wife tells her secret to the water and is in this action that we can get clearly the speaker purpose with the story, she cannot keep the secret illustrating that woman can not keep a secret.

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c is a symbol. when bernice gets her hair cut, it is the authors way of showing the affects and demands of pier pressure and the over-all attitudes of people at the time.