Why I Want a Wife Satire

1.  Yes the essay does have a thesis.  The thesis was "Why do I want a wife?"  The thesis is basically what her whole essay is about which is, all the reasons why she would want a wife.

2.  The effect of this repetition, is to emphasize how much a wifer really does or at least did back then.  Also, to truely clarify why like any man she would want a wife.

3.  I think that she really doesn't want a wife like the one she descibes in the story, but she wants to accomplish and do the things she stated she wanted to do while her ideal wife was taking care of the home, and kids.  I do think that in some places this "ideal wife" exists, because they're are places where wives are submissive to their husbands and are very dependent on the husband.  I think that Brady wrote this essay, in my opinion, because she wanted to show people exactly what the life of a house wife r wife in general really looked like back then, and all the things that they went through just to please their husbands or what their husbands actually expected of them to do.

4.  Personally, Brady's definition of a wife is similary to ther definiton of being a slave.  A slave is somone who is owned by someone else, and in this case wives are owned by their husbands.  She defines what a wife is by telling us all the slave like things she does for her husband and even her kids.  She organizes the many services a wife provides her husband and family by telling us her wants and needs and how her wife needs to fit her life into his plan or into the direction she's going.  What I think about think of Brady’s characterization of a wife and her responsibilities is that it's like slave work, the only difference is that she wasn't getting paid.  I think she wants her readers to respond to this characterization with shock and disgust of what it's really like to be a house wife or just a wife.  I think this because the stuff that she said made you feel bad that these women were so underappriciated and taken for granted.

5.  Dear Brady,
Your essay, was just so wonderful.  It really gave me newfound knowlegde and insight on the life of a wife back then and even in some places today.  I loved it, because it was so detailed and it was told from a different view point.  I think that it's very persuassive and effective, because it persuasses me to want to make a chage and it effects the way I think.

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