Judy Brady I Want A Wife Analysis

The speaker in this essay is Judy Brady. She was born in 1937 in San Francisco. She became a college graduate, a wife, a mother of two, and and a women’s rights activist. We know this information from page 308 of Common Threads, which briefly describes the life of Judy Brady. This understanding allows us to know that Judy knows a lot about what wives do for their household. Looking closely, one can find that she is retelling her own life from her husband’s point of view. Once the mood of the essay has been correctly defined as sarcastic, we know that Judy is complaining about what she has to do. Judy wants a wife to do everything she had to do as a wife, like her husband. That’s what the essay is saying.

The essay is pitching the idea that women have to stand up for themselves and stop the one-sided relationships or they will continue to be exploited. The essay is complaining that wives everywhere are being treated like slaves by their husbands. The essay was written during the late 60s/early 70s and given in 1970 at a women's rally in San

This can be deducted by the fact that she continuously says “I want a wife”, and wives are typically had by males alone. In addition, she assumes that her audience is sexist. For example, she said that wives shouldn’t complain to their husband but husbands can complain to their wives (¶ 5). She assumes that her audience thinks women have to do all of the dirty work while men educate themselves and relax. For example, Brady wrote “I want a wife who will work and send me to school” (¶ 3). This implies that women don’t go to school and men don’t do work. She also wrote “I want a wife to go along when our family takes a vacation so that someone can continue to care for me and my children when I need a rest...” (¶ 4). This implies that women don’t get to have breaks, but the rest of the family does. I don’t believe Brady is trying to write from the perspective of any specific