Judy Brady’s essay “I Want a Wife” can be seen in many different ways, but I myself do not particularly admire it. On the other hand, I can’t say that I don’t admire it either. At first it seems like a woman is trying to pry at the heartstrings of every American woman, and to that affect it works, but the essay doesn’t necessarily hold a purpose. It simply just tries to breed a bundle of anger, and then leaves no where for the anger to go. There is no resolution or solution for this “problem” if you will.
Along with breeding unnecessary anger, Brady’s essay is abundantly one sided with not even a zest of an opposing viewpoint. This is an essay by a woman for other women. I’m not saying that Brady is wrong or that her essay is terrible; but men are not the terrible, insensitive, or egotistical human beings that she makes us out to be. Many men face the same difficulties and stresses that women do these days. It is a new world out there and the typical 1900’s family is no more.
Medea would most likely agree one-hundred percent with this essay. She would clam that Jason was just like the husband in the story, only three times as bad. Medea would also be able to see where all of these negative aspects of husbands come from, because Jason was far from a model husband. However Jason being a not so great husband does not justify murder.
I can not lie, a wife that would do all those things would be rather nice but most likely impossible.
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