Judy Brady
| Q1: | Judy Brady, the author of "I Want a Wife," is a female writer. Why do you think she wants a wife? (Judy Brady is not lesbian.) |
| Q2: | What do you think are a wife's/husband's duties? Does your description of the duties apply to your parents? |
| Q3: | Why does Brady capitalize the words "A Wife"? |
| Q4: | Judy Brady repeats "I Want a Wife" 29 times throughout the essay. What effect does this anaphora create? |
| Q5: | Why does Brady italicize the words my and good? |
| Q6: | Observe the sentence structure of "I Want a Wife who will plan the menus.....while I do my studying" and discuss the effect of the structure of this long sentence. Where else in the essay does Brady create the same effect? |
| Q7: | Paraphrase (state in your own words) the sentence "And I want a wife who understands that my sexual needs may ntail more than strict adherence to monogamy." |
| Q8: | What is Brady's purpose of using a rhetorical question to close the essay? |
| Q9: | Almost every sentence in this essay is ironic. How does Brady reveal her tone through the use of irony? In what way does this tone help Brady make her point? |
| Q10: | Name the categories of a wife's duties that Brady identifies. How does Brady use classification to define the subject, wife? How does she integrate classification and definition to support her argument? What is her argument? |
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Brady, Judy. "I Want a Wife." Strategy and Structure: Short Readings for Composition. Ed. William J. Kelly. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1996. 333-35. |