The Wife of Bath's background does not scare the men in the group away from marriage. In fact, the Wife of Bath has been married five times and is on the lookout for a sixth husband. Her tales and her character challenge traditional gender roles and stereotypes of women as passive and submissive, and her sexual frankness may make some of the men uncomfortable, but it does not scare them away from marriage. The men in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are a diverse group with varying opinions and attitudes towards marriage, and they are not all influenced by the Wife of Bath's story.