I agree how Brady is complaining how wife and mom are mistreated with tons of responsibility piling on them. Although I’m a male, I’m starting to leaning on her side that I really feel her agony. However, for a women or wife, husband or father is also important and responsible. First of all, I want a husband who can support me financially. To support a princess inside me, he would have to make tons of money in order for me to spend on LVs, expensive bags, fancy big brand shoes, 10 new whole set of dresses everyday and treat me to dinner once every weekend although I may only want to take a bite of an expensive 5 star hotel steak. Next, I want a husband who can be respected by our neighbor and lots of reputation to let me look wealthy and classy. I want a husband who can also do choirs and pick up children when I’m gone to socialize with my friends to salon or shopping. I want a husband who can be athletic and play sports with my energetic boys. I want a husband who can protect me when I’m in trouble and willing to stand out bravely to speak for my mistakes. There are so many things a woman wants an ideal husband and men to have.
In “I want a Wife”, Judy Brady argue how woman or wife has to take more responsibility than man does. Traditionally, all men need to do in a family to take jobs and support the family financially. However, women need to stay home and quit working to take care of children and house choir. Women tends to play a supporting role to support things back at home by preparing dinner, taking care of kids, keeping the house clean, satisfying husband’s sexual needs and keeping detail record of appointments and daily schedules. “Who wouldn’t want a wife?” said Judy. According to Judy, women are simply treated like a slave for men. Once a man finds another person who may be more suitable than the current wife, the man would simply divorce and expect the wife to take care of the children that he can start a new life. Also, women can never take a rest. Although the family is on vacation, the wife has to continue to take care of the children and husband. Judy makes the man seems like a devil that would tortures the woman and makes her life difficult although she doesn’t have to take jobs.
Speaker: The speaker would be the author, who is a wife /woman who is sick of taking all the responsibility that she also wishes she is a man who can have a wife.
Occasion: The main occasion is from seeing how traditionally women are expected to have certain role and responsibility in the family. The second occasion would be her friend’s recent divorce and his search to a new wife. These spark her interest in examining what would it be like to have a wife.
Audience: The audience would certainly be for male, in specifically to husband which she finds them to be abusive against women.
Purpose: The main purpose is to let the reader understand the agony of women and realize how husband/ man can be abusive and treat women like a household machine. She wishes to change the expectation place on women that these expectations are unreasonable and women should have rights too.
Subject: The unreasonable expectation of women that they are treated unfairly by their husbands.
Tone: The tone is sarcastic that the author pretends she is the husband which she explains how she wants her wife to behave. With her description, we can infer that she is pretty furious with how wives are treated that husbands often make unreasonable request and place overwhelming expectations on them.
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