I Want A Wife Rhetorical Analysis

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Why I Want a Wife Rhetorical Analysis ¨I belong to that classification of people known as wives, I am a wife. And, not altogether incidentally, I am a mother.” The article “I want a wife”, which Judy Brady wrote talks about the being a picture perfect wife. This article was published in Ms. Magazine in 1972. At this time in history the feminist movement going on. This article was another voice for the women to show society more reasons for why women should have more rights. Judy Brady shows this in an exceptional way by using sarcasm, pathos, logos, and ethos thought the story. Judy Brady displays that mother and wives are important and should receive more praise than they do by using numerous rhetorical devices like sarcasm, ethos, logos, …show more content…
Judy Brady is not being serious in this story, but she does seem to be annoyed. She exaggerates her want and desire a husband's dreams of his wife. She does not literally want a wife, but Judy is annoyed by the fact she cannot have anyone take care of her husband. She is trying to come off as sarcastic. Brady states that she wants a wife who will work and send her to school so that she would not have to work as hard while working to become economically independent. Another example of the article of Brady using sarcasm is when she states, “my god, who wouldn't want a wife?”. Brady goes on and on of a list of things husbands expect from a wife and while states the list she is showing exaggeration towards the subject. To establish credibility in “I want a wife,” Judy Brady uses ethos to do so. Judy Brady displayed her credibly in the first few of paragraphs. “I belong to that classification of people known as wives. I am a wife, not altogether incidentally, I am a mother” (Brady). This makes the reader believe that she has a lot of knowledge on this topic. Since she is a wife and a mother we would assume she has a lot of experience. As she lists numerous jobs a wife completes, she has obviously completed these jobs in her life. These all show that Judy Brady is a credible source which displays