Whether you see it is as a lack of trust or a test of faithfulness,the "Tenth Story of the Tenth Day" definitely went to the extreme when Gualtieri was testing his wife's honesty and unconditional love for him. From God and Abraham, to Odysseus and Penelope, these souls seem to put in a lot of effort to what they morally believe when it comes to trust and love. I saw Gualtieri's test was like some sort of sick game. His empowerment over women was an outrage to me, because if Griselda ever stood up for herself and her children , she would be shunned by her own husband, not having any sort of women's right at all. And what would happen if Griselda did not accept to support Gualtieri's to his own daughter? Would Gualtieri go through with marrying her?
All the women seemed to suffer in all these stories. Even though the nuns and the Abbess had their way with Masetto at first, in the end Masetto ended up being successfully wealthy and got what he wanted, leaving the nuns and Abbess unsatisfied. In the "Eighth story of the Seventh Day" the widow is also left miserable in the end because of her actions in the beginning. Just like the poems and stories we have read in class, Rieneri was willing to wait and do anything for the widow, because love makes you go mad. He also went mad with revenge, using manipulation on the widow for being manipulated by her. Just the the mountain girls and the priest, they tried to fool each other to get what they want. It's like a game of karma.
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