In these two stories the author brings to the reader’s attention how women are thought to play a minor role in life, such as wife, or mother. When in actuality weather you appreciate them or not, these women play huge rolls in life and in our future. Honestly women are stronger than they are thought to be, they help keep the human population going, they help shape the future (raising children), and they help keep everything nice and tidy. The fictional short story “Your Mother Never Worked” by Bonnie Smith-Yackle is about the child of an outrageously strong woman who never stopped working to help support her family. She worked endlessly day in and day out even after being confined to a wheelchair. She raised her “. . .half a dozen or more.
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And the narrator, herself a wife, wants a wife. She explains that she wants a wife because she “. . .would like to go back to school so that [she could] become economically independent. . .” (Brady 3), she also wants “. . .a wife to take care of [her] children” (Brady 3), and “[a] wife [who] must arrange to loose time at work. . .not lose the job” (Brady 3). She also goes on to say that “[she] want[‘s] a wife who will take care of my physical needs” (Brady 4), basically saying that her wife is expected to have sex with her weather she is in the mood for it or not. By listing all the things, she wants in a wife, she expresses how demanding the expectations of a wife …show more content…
In “your mother never worked” (Smith-Yackle) the mother isn’t appreciated for all of the hard work she did throughout her lifetime. And in “why I want a wife” the narrator show how wives are unappreciated by their husbands, not realizing all the things, a wife does for them until they’ve grown tired of them and go “. . . looking for another wife” (Brady 2). Both of these stories fail to notice the great things these women did on a day to day basis. I’m not saying that they need a gold star on their forehead every time they do something, like take out the trash when it’s full or going to the bathroom by themselves. But just be grateful, like when granted a favor, or doing something you could have easily have done yourself. Basically, the moral is to just be a well-mannered person who appreciates the things people do for
And the narrator, herself a wife, wants a wife. She explains that she wants a wife because she “. . .would like to go back to school so that [she could] become economically independent. . .” (Brady 3), she also wants “. . .a wife to take care of [her] children” (Brady 3), and “[a] wife [who] must arrange to loose time at work. . .not lose the job” (Brady 3). She also goes on to say that “[she] want[‘s] a wife who will take care of my physical needs” (Brady 4), basically saying that her wife is expected to have sex with her weather she is in the mood for it or not. By listing all the things, she wants in a wife, she expresses how demanding the expectations of a wife …show more content…
In “your mother never worked” (Smith-Yackle) the mother isn’t appreciated for all of the hard work she did throughout her lifetime. And in “why I want a wife” the narrator show how wives are unappreciated by their husbands, not realizing all the things, a wife does for them until they’ve grown tired of them and go “. . . looking for another wife” (Brady 2). Both of these stories fail to notice the great things these women did on a day to day basis. I’m not saying that they need a gold star on their forehead every time they do something, like take out the trash when it’s full or going to the bathroom by themselves. But just be grateful, like when granted a favor, or doing something you could have easily have done yourself. Basically, the moral is to just be a well-mannered person who appreciates the things people do for