Who Wouldn't Want a Wife?

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Being a wife or a mother automatically comes with an enormous amount of responsibilities; as times have changed these expected responsibilities of mothers and wives have changed as well. These caretaker roles women play have come to define them and what they represent in society. Unfortunately to this day despite their immeasurable hard work women are still recognized as disposable material, unequal to men. But this does not under any circumstance demean the enormous accomplishments these wives and mother are capable of.

The main objective in Judy Brady’s short essay is describing the extravagant responsibilities both a wife and/or a mother completes on a daily basis and the dependency the children and men in their lives have on the completion of these responsibilities. The idea to write the essay arose to Brady after hearing of her male friend’s recent quest for a new wife. He is recently divorced and has children with former wife. The author uses this information to stimulate her idea of what she identifies as wives’ responsibilities, while simultaneously illustrating what is expected of a wife.

Brady has the aspiration to go back and attend school again in order to become more “economically independent” (Brady 275). In order for Brady to go back and attend school she feels that she will need a wife, like all wives are expected to, meet her many, many needs. This wife needs to be able to first support her returning to school financially by upholding a sufficient job. In addition to the wife working full time she will also be required to meet Brady’s every need and the needs of her children at home. This would include, but not be limited to such things as scheduling and keeping track of necessary checkups and dental appo...

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...monstrating how men expect these enormous amounts of responsibilities from their spouse.

So all though Brady may portray that men feel women are deposable when one more suitable is found or desired, they are. Wives’ are exactly what they make themselves to be; a caretaker, a nurturer and a selfless people. As a supporter of women’s rights Brady uses this essay to illustrate how a wife, mother or woman is complete and entirely irreplaceable; becoming an excellent demonstration tool to a woman’s pure value. And if a fool is willing to let this irreplaceable human being go for a minor in fracture on her duties, then who is to say is the fool?

Works Cited

Brady, Judy. “Why I want A Wife.” The Blair Reader: Exploring Issues and Ideas. 1937: 275.

Stpopper, Mary Beth. “Complete Analysis of From Diagram.” 4 April 2011.

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