I Want A Wife

In the late 20th century it was rare for a woman to tend to the obligations that a man has been responsible for the past millenniums. In a traditional marriage, the woman tends to the man’s needs, including sexual, caring for the children, and all of the house chores, which were awfully exhausting. Judy Brady wrote I Want a Wife in 1971 and evidently in that era, women were responsible for all of the duties Brady included in her essay. While now it is common for the men to take on the responsibility that was once known as the “woman’s role,” it was unknown for the men to stay at home while the women take on the “male” role in the time frame that Judy Brady decided to write I Want a Wife. Brady wrote I Want a Wife to mock the traditional marriage while empower women to rise and expose them to the awful truth of the saddening life they have been living for the past thousands of years. She successfully achieves this by using numerous techniques. …show more content…
She explored this idea by adapting a satiric tone to express the mockery taken in place. An example of this would be when she mocks the traditional marriage by stating all of the responsibilities, then in the end she says, “My God, wouldn’t want a wife?” (Brady). Another way she developed the satiric tone was when she talked about wanting a women to send her to school so that she could become financially stable. During the 20th century, it wasn’t common for the women to support the family while the man finished his