Why I want a wife questions

1. Does this essay have an explicitly stated thesis? If so, what is it? If you believe the thesis is implied, paraphrase it in your own words.
Yes, this essay has a thesis. The thesis is in the form of a question; "Why do I want a wife?".

2. Throughout the essay, Brady repeats the words “I want a wife.” What is the effect of this repetition? 
When Brady repeats "I want a wife", she is reminding her readers the purpose of her essay.



3. Brady never uses the personal pronouns he or she to refer to the wife she defines. Why not?
Brady wants her wife to be an ideal wife, a picture in her readers' heads. She also doesn't use he or she because she hasn't given her "wife" a gender, just because it is her "wife" doesn't necessarily  mean that it is a woman or a man.

4. Do you think Brady really wants the kind of wife she describes—does this ideal spouse

actually exist? Explain why you think Brady wrote this essay.

I think that Brady is being sarcastic throughout this essay, I feel that she is describing what society wants men to expect in their wives and she is showing how ridiculous it is to expect characteristics like this in a spouse.

5. How does Brady define what it means to be a “wife”? How does she organize the many services a wife provides her husband and family? What do you think of Brady’s characterization of a wife and her responsibilities? How do you think she wants her readers to respond to this characterization? Why?
Brady defines what it means to be a "wife" as someone who does everything for their spouse in order to make them happy. Her characterization of a wife and her responsibilities are those of the ideal spouse. I feel that Brady wants her readers to realize how ridiculous it sounds because that is the way society portrayed wives then.  

6. Write a letter to Brady responding to “I Want a Wife.” Let her know what you admire or don’t admire about the essay and the extent to which you consider it effective and/or persuasive.
Dear Judy Brady,
I enjoy your essay, "I Want a Wife". In the essay you explain reasons that you want a wife and I admire the sarcasm or satire that you use to describe what you'd want in a wife. Overall, I like the essay and I feel that there isn't really anything negative that i could say about it.
Sincerely, Alexus Dyer

7. Write your own piece entitled “I Want a/an X.” You can use Brady’s essay as a model, and in the process, imitate some of her stylistic techniques. Or, alternatively, write an essay about the role of a “wife” in the early twenty-first century, explaining how a wife’s responsibilities complement and are complemented by those of a spouse.

Why I want a math class.

I want a math class so that when I become an adult and I need to find the sine, cosine or tangent of something, I'll look back and be glad that I took that math class. I want a math class so that when people ask me what class I hate the most, I will happily answer with "Math." I want a math class so that I can get confused and stressed out over problems that are more simple than the teacher lets you know. I want a math class so that I can stay up all night trying to answer one problem on my homework from my math class. I want a math class so that when my child is in high school, I can be useless and not be able to help him/her at all with his/her math homework. I want a math class so that the grade from it can drop my GPA dramatically. I want a math class so that I can sit in my room, on the night before a big math test, trying to figure out a way to study  the material. I want a math class because everything I learn in there will be used in real life, including trigonometry and geometry. I want a math class so that I can sit around confused, and lost. That is why I want a math class.