Mistress Quickly for Quick Judgement

Within the first scene of act four of the Merry Wives of Windsor, it shows that Mistress Quickly is a person who tends to judge everything she hears quickly. Not only does she end up hearing everyone’s problems since she’s their messengers, but she basically always has an opinion about everything she hears about. In Act four scene one line 53, She hears and misunderstands what Evans is teaching William, “What is your genitive case plural, William?” It sounds like she assumes it is provocative and quickly assumes that it’s related to something sexual. She responds with “Vengeance of Jenny’s case! Fie on her! Never name her, child, if she be a whore,” act four scene one line 57 In all plays, there’s always wild misunderstandings that receives a wild response. Her character is essentially the one who hears what everyone wants to say to each other but also has something to say about everyone’s situation and message. Considering that she also has to speak on everyone else’s behalf, her job as hearing what they have to say makes her want to interpret everything. This isn’t only a female characteristic since its gossip, but men also have an opinion about every situation, especially the jealous ones. Since she tends to misunderstand many statements in conversation, she thinks that they are sexual innuendos and makes quick judgement about them, but she was corrected just as quick in this case after she  says, “You do ill to teach the child such words. He teaches him to hick and to hack, which they’ll do fast enough of themselves, and to call “whorum.” Fie upon you!” He responds with “‘oman art thou lunatics? Hast thou no understandings for thy cases and the numbers of the genders? Thou art foolish Christian creatures as I would desires.” So she ends up being disciplined and doesn’t talk for the rest of the scene.