I Want a Wife
Jervon Daniel
Professor Bogart
English 101
1-13-14
A Modern Day Slave
Judy Brady’s “I Want a Wife,” speaks out against the stereotypes of modern society on women with a sarcastic humor. She wants the reader to respect the role of a woman. She emphasize how important a wife is to a man, she then went on to explain how men expect so much from their wives with nothing in return. Also how outrageous their task as a wife is, how some things are just too demanding and unfair.
“I belong to that classification of people know as wives. I am A Wife. And, not altogether incidentally, I am a mother.” Judy Brady’s opening statement to “I Want a Wife,’. With that opening statement it shows she’s speaking off experience. The purpose of “I Want a Wife,” is to let the world know what a woman has to deal with as a wife, also to get men to realize the overbearing task they expected from a their wife, which is not fair. Hoping they have sympathy and learn to treat them as an equal.
Judy Brady then went into detail listing the task a wife is supposed to do, while the husband just attends school to become economically independent. Her duty while the husband attend school is to work and support the family, she’s also have to type her husband paper after he has finish writing it.
A wife is not supposed to bother her husband with rambling complaints about her task she has to fulfill. As a wife you suppose to take care of your husband details in his social life. It’s an intentional exaggeration of the truth she portrays since most men handle and take care of the details in their own personal life but Judy Brady purpose is to show how a wife feel about being used, for example if the husband and wife gets invited out to an event the wife duty is to take care of the baby arrangements. If company were invited over to the house her duty is to then clean the whole house, prepare a special meal for her husband and
Professor Bogart
English 101
1-13-14
A Modern Day Slave
Judy Brady’s “I Want a Wife,” speaks out against the stereotypes of modern society on women with a sarcastic humor. She wants the reader to respect the role of a woman. She emphasize how important a wife is to a man, she then went on to explain how men expect so much from their wives with nothing in return. Also how outrageous their task as a wife is, how some things are just too demanding and unfair.
“I belong to that classification of people know as wives. I am A Wife. And, not altogether incidentally, I am a mother.” Judy Brady’s opening statement to “I Want a Wife,’. With that opening statement it shows she’s speaking off experience. The purpose of “I Want a Wife,” is to let the world know what a woman has to deal with as a wife, also to get men to realize the overbearing task they expected from a their wife, which is not fair. Hoping they have sympathy and learn to treat them as an equal.
Judy Brady then went into detail listing the task a wife is supposed to do, while the husband just attends school to become economically independent. Her duty while the husband attend school is to work and support the family, she’s also have to type her husband paper after he has finish writing it.
A wife is not supposed to bother her husband with rambling complaints about her task she has to fulfill. As a wife you suppose to take care of your husband details in his social life. It’s an intentional exaggeration of the truth she portrays since most men handle and take care of the details in their own personal life but Judy Brady purpose is to show how a wife feel about being used, for example if the husband and wife gets invited out to an event the wife duty is to take care of the baby arrangements. If company were invited over to the house her duty is to then clean the whole house, prepare a special meal for her husband and