In this sarcastic passage, the writer Judy Bradly is talking from her perspective about what a friend who was recently divorced was looking for, a wife. Bradly talks about how she wants a wife as well, to do all the things she has to do. The tone in this passage is casual, sarcastic and occasionally ironic. Bradly doesn't literally want a wife, but instead wants someone who could do all the things that she has to do on a regular. The author uses rhetorical devices like pathos by listing different jobs that are required by wives. Saying all these things that wives are meant to do causes readers to get upset and mad at how women are treated as the lesser of the two and gets people emotionally involved and wanting to take action against