When most people think of a housewife, they think of the image housewifes were given back in the 1950s or the 1960s. “Why I Want A Wife” by Judy Brady is an excellent example of the stereotypical person over estimating housewifes. A housewife is a married woman who manages her own own household as her main occupation. In Brady’s article she talks about everyday tasks a housewife accomplishes and why she would like to have a housewife herself through the scenarios she tells and repetition.
Brady starts her article by saying she is a wife. “I belong to that classification of people known as wives,” (Brady 263). By doing this she clarifies that she is one a woman, and two, that she is not going to talk so nicely at what she is about to say. To most readers this may seem like a decently strong hook, but it makes the reader think she is going to tell all good facts about housewives. Brady instead takes a different path that belittled housewives and writes her article in a extremely stereotypical way. A path that sounds as if she had gotten in a fight with her husband and this article was the result of the fight. Brady then goes on a gives a decent size list about all the things she would have her wife do for her.
Before Brady starts naming off reasons she asks one simple question. “Why do I want a wife?” (Brady 263). Right after asking …show more content…
“I want a wife..” (Brady 263). Brady uses a great amount of repetition in her article. She states the same phase over many times which actually really only needs to be said once. While it does get the phase, “I want a Wife..” (Brady 263) hammered into the reader's mind, it also gets really irritating to read her article. Brady seems to start almost every sentence with that one phrase. She changes the phase sometimes like “My wife…” (263) or “A wife who…” (263), but it is all sounds the same after reading around ten sentences all starting the exact same
Brady starts her article by saying she is a wife. “I belong to that classification of people known as wives,” (Brady 263). By doing this she clarifies that she is one a woman, and two, that she is not going to talk so nicely at what she is about to say. To most readers this may seem like a decently strong hook, but it makes the reader think she is going to tell all good facts about housewives. Brady instead takes a different path that belittled housewives and writes her article in a extremely stereotypical way. A path that sounds as if she had gotten in a fight with her husband and this article was the result of the fight. Brady then goes on a gives a decent size list about all the things she would have her wife do for her.
Before Brady starts naming off reasons she asks one simple question. “Why do I want a wife?” (Brady 263). Right after asking …show more content…
“I want a wife..” (Brady 263). Brady uses a great amount of repetition in her article. She states the same phase over many times which actually really only needs to be said once. While it does get the phase, “I want a Wife..” (Brady 263) hammered into the reader's mind, it also gets really irritating to read her article. Brady seems to start almost every sentence with that one phrase. She changes the phase sometimes like “My wife…” (263) or “A wife who…” (263), but it is all sounds the same after reading around ten sentences all starting the exact same