Rhetorical Analysis: Why I Want A Wife

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Wives do all of the housework while the men are enjoying life. The wives have a lot of tasks to complete in one day and continue with the same routine everyday. Wives don’t get to take a break because they are too busy with chores. The men get to go out and have fun because they don’t have any chores to do. The men don’t help their wives get the chores done because they think that it 's a wife 's duty. The article “Why I Want a Wife”, by Judy Brady is explaining why she would want a wife by ethos, logos, and pathos to get the reader to understand how she feels about the situation. The author uses ethos to give the audience knowledge of what these wives are going through everyday. She is being honest about the experiences of wives because …show more content…

Wives do so many daily tasks for the family to function: “ I want a wife who will work and send me to school… keep track of appointments… a wife who is a good nurturant attendant to my children… take care of physical needs… take care of details of my social life”(229). This list of chores women have to do is evidence of how much work women have to deal with everyday. Judy Brady points out that the wives have to do all of the work to help keep the family going while their husbands go to school to get a good education to get a good job: “When I am through with school and have a job, I want my wife to quit working and remain at home so that my wife can more fully and completely take care of wife’s duties”(230). This is telling the audience that the men consider all of the chores wives do everyday is a wife’s duty. It also shows that the men don’t have to do the work that the wives have to do because they consider it as a wife’s duty and that it 's their responsibility to stay on task. The women go through so much stress, and hard work to keep their man in school for education to get a good job. After the men are done with education to get a job; the wives get a little bit of weight lifted off their shoulders, but they still have all of the other chores they have to get

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