The Golden Ass

by

Apuleius

The baker is yet another cruel owner of Lucius (as a donkey). He forces Lucius to do mill work. Like many characters, he has an unfaithful partner. The baker tells his spouse, the baker’s wife, a story about the fuller and the fuller’s wife, where unfaithfulness has dire consequences, particularly for the fuller’s wife’s lover. Ultimately, the baker catches his own wife cheating and divorces her, but the baker’s wife plots revenge and finds a witch, who seems to send the ghost of a murdered woman to visit the baker. Ultimately, the baker ends up dead under circumstances that look like suicide but which seem to involve the ghost that the witch sent to him. The baker embodies the complex relationship between stories and reality in The Golden Ass: he tells one story, only to end up as a character in another one. He represents the complex ways that humans, and particularly people in relationships, plot against each other.

The Baker Quotes in The Golden Ass

The The Golden Ass quotes below are all either spoken by The Baker or refer to The Baker. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
The Power of Stories Theme Icon
).
Book 9 Quotes

As the baker reviewed these indignities, his spouse, for whom insouciant arrogance was by this time second nature, called down curses on the fuller’s wife in the most hateful terms.

Related Characters: Lucius (speaker), The Baker, The Baker’s Wife, The Fuller’s Wife, The Fuller
Page Number: 204
Explanation and Analysis:
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The Baker Quotes in The Golden Ass

The The Golden Ass quotes below are all either spoken by The Baker or refer to The Baker. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
The Power of Stories Theme Icon
).
Book 9 Quotes

As the baker reviewed these indignities, his spouse, for whom insouciant arrogance was by this time second nature, called down curses on the fuller’s wife in the most hateful terms.

Related Characters: Lucius (speaker), The Baker, The Baker’s Wife, The Fuller’s Wife, The Fuller
Page Number: 204
Explanation and Analysis: