'I Want A Wife' By Judy Brady

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Being a wife, is what a lot of women hope to be to someone they love. Is being a wife mean to have partnership to someone you would call you husband? It is a title for the love each of you and your partner share? What does exactly being a wife mean? It seems like in today's age and even back in the days wives are the women who are modern-day slaves to their husbands and households. Women are expected to do almost everything in the house, from tend to the kids, their husbands, the house, and even some maintain a fulltime job. In a writing by Judy Brady called "I want a wife" she discloses the impractical duties that women are expected of as a wife. To strengthen her view point she uses sarcasms in her tone, exaggeration in her view of what wives …show more content…

In her essay she uses hyperbole, which is exaggerating a certain subject or matter, which is what Brandy does when she describes the duties of an expected wife. For example, in paragraph 5 one of these areas is seen when Brady states "And I want a wife who will type my papers for me when I have written them." In that quote Brady's implies that duty is nonetheless one of a wife, but one as a person of service. So hyperbole strengthens Brady's view on the duty, basically implying that the wives are expected to do everything mind as well, have their duties includes tasks not usually performed by wives. Also, another example where this is seen is when Brady states. "When I meet people at school that I like and want to entertain, I want a wife who will have the house clean, will prepare a special meal, serve it to me and my friends, and not interrupt when I talk about that things that interest me and my friends." (231) This quote states that the wife isn't seen as nostalgic partner who would enjoy actives like this with their husbands, but as a maid of some sort who will prepare and cater to him and his friends. When Brady uses hyperbole to describe the duties of an ideal wife, I think she wants the audience to see that a wife is sentimental partner that is there to love, support, and help her husband. She is not a woman who does everything that a …show more content…

At the end of her writing, she kind of exaggerates and states, "My God, who wouldn't want a wife?" (232). Now, I don't think that Judy Brady really wants a wife, but by her using that in a sarcastic way she is implying that of course anyone would want someone to have them help with all their personal tasks, so they don't have to do anything. Someone who's "duties" is to do all these things and not complain, "I want a wife who will not bother me with rambling questions about a wife's duties" (Brady 231). Brady portrays the husband as someone who doesn't do anything but expects a lot, so he can have fun and maintain a social life. Even though Brady seems to be laughing at the idea of what's expected from a wife, with all the circumstances and standards that she addressed in her writing, the question isn't who wouldn't want a wife, but the real question is who would want to be

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