I Want A Wife In the essay “I Want a Wife” by Judy Brady, the writer creates an argument about how wives do all duty in the house including the duties of husbands. The essay is descriptive in nature. The writer describes vividly how every wife should act and how they help out with chores both at home and out of home. She also describes how wives take care of their husband’s needs as well as theirs and their children. “I want a wife to keep track of the children’s doctors and dentist appointments.
In “A Sorrowful Woman” I found it appealing of the lengths that the husband took to nurture his wife the passage that states “With great care he rearranged his life.” (41) shows his dedication to her and making sure she had what she wanted. While it was appealing to see his love for her, it also did not appeal to me to see that instead of trying to get her help she needed, he just placated to her depression until it overtook her. 3. The two women’s attitudes toward family life differ because while Faye is upset because she does not have a child and desperately want to give one to Kai, Godwin’s unnamed wife is upset and desperately trying to escape from the child and husband and life as a mother she already has. The problem for Faye is being able to realize that she
The author also uses irony to add a bit of humor, and also emphasize judgment on men’s idea of the gender roles. “ I want a wife who will work and send me to school”. Hyperbole: The author creates an unrealistic image of the typical wife and exaggerates to make a point. “I want a wife who will go along when our family takes a vacation …rest and change of scene”. This is an exaggeration because even on her free time, the wife is portrayed as a slave to the husband.
Alcee Arobin is a lady’s man who has many affairs with different women and intends to make Edna another one of his affairs. But Edna doesn’t let Alcee take control of the relationship; she writes him when she wants and decides when they should go out. Being in control is a reverse role for Edna, but she knows it is really who she is, and it is what she wants. Alcee plays along and lets Edna take control, and Edna discovers the satisfaction of using a man the way men usually use women. Although Edna has taken control of her own life, she is still not happy with her life because of the many different types of love she has experienced.
Her mother continually tries to show Waverly that she is a good parent and is looking out for her daughter’s best interest. Her mother is trying to make sure Waverly always has the best. However their styles of showing this love are not helpful in growing a positive relationship. And Waverly realizes how she can make the relationship better. Waverly wants to think like her mother in order to strengthen her relationship with her.
She also brings up throughout the writing how she and her friends discussed entering a relationship or marriage with belief of co-parenting was attainable. She discusses equality in the household and how it takes both to obtain it but there are sides that will be out weighing the other. Hope brings up the fact of how when she was a child her mother would stay at home full time and maintain the house while her father was always out working to provide for the family and that she rarely saw him. She compared that to her marriage currently and they see how women are offered all the same opportunities now so that should help to create co-parenting, where parents work and both parents try to help take care of the household . She realizes that it isn't as easy as it sounds Hope brings up the miscommunications between the two of them.
Because it is an accepted practice for an older married woman and a younger man to be friends, Edna’s husband sees nothing strange about this. After a time Edna and Robert grow closer and start to feel for each other in more than just a platonic way. Though she doesn’t act on her growing feeling, this makes Edna reevaluate her life. She realized that she wasn’t happy with the way her life was going. Edna felt as if everyone had control of what she did, except herself.
He wants what’s best for her, but doesn’t want to see himself get hurt along the way. He likes being in control, and the feeling of Diane’s acceptance and love, is one of the more important things to him. Neil is tired of not being intimate with Diane, and he slightly keeps pushing her towards what he wants, but every time follows regret and suppressed anger, because he knows she’s not ready. He tells her that he’ll wait for her, but it’s not something he’s happy about. He holds grudges against it, but he loves her and therefore he stands by her choice.
As Anna’s mother warns her about having an older boyfriend, and that he wants to take advantage of her; Anna needs to take heed in what her mother is saying. Anna needs to learn about making healthy sexual decisions before deciding to try making other people happy, mainly her boyfriend. What any adolescent needs to do is sit down and identify their personal value system. She could make better and more informed decisions if she explores her moral values. Also by exploring the difference between her boyfriends, and her mother’s motives she could come up with a list of pros and cons.
We can know when Narji see her father as an employer to her maid has a relationship with her father. Then in Her, a woman is a victim from her husband, because her husband marry with another woman. The condition is that felt by both of the characters as a woman. And the third similarity is feminism of the characters, because the major character from The Picture by Nawal Al Sadawi and Her by Titis Basino is a woman. It can represent of feminism.