Brady is a wife herself, and in her essay she wishes she had a wife that she described. Brady brings out all the different roles of the American housewife. From the beginning, Brady is being somehow sarcastic, but deep inside I believe she is scared and very tired of being a wife. She writes of how she wants to go back to school, while a wife at home would do all the housework and also would take care of the children. At the time when she wrote this essay, a wife was expected to do everything in and around the house and take care of all the appointments, vocations, and ext. To be a wife wa

It feels like this essay was written around the sixties or seventies, during the first feminist movements. However, reading it I realized that not many things had changed over the years. Women are still not equal to men. Maybe they are on papers, but most men sure don’t think so. For instance most women struggle so much more to get a well-paid job than men do. Is gender still an issue? After doing some research I realized that it still is.

s and still is a twenty-four hours seven days a week job. Brady describes a wife as the person who stays home and takes care of everything so when the husband comes home everything is put in its place. Brady says, “I want a wife to take care of my children.., keep track of the children’s doctor and dentist appointments…and keep track of mine, too” (529). She wants a wife who would “k!

eep the house clean, her clothes clean, ironed, mended, replaced when need be, and who will see to it that my personal things are kept in their proper place so that I can find what I need the minute I need it” (529). A wife should also do all the cooking, groceries, and cleaning afterwards. A wife should never complain about her duties and should always be there and support the husband. The wife should plan vacations when there is a need of “change of scenes” (530). The wife should also understand her husband if he feels depressed and try to make him feel better if needed. She should also be “sensitive to his sexual needs” and also she must understand that sometimes he needs a night out by himself (530). If anyone in the family is ill, she should be the one taking care of the sick person, and she should be the one making doctor appointments. Toward the end, Brady says that a wife should understand if the h

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