Wife essay

1: The thesis is that women are expected to do so much while their husbands are expected to do so little.
2: It makes the reader realize how absurd the "ideal" wife is.
3: No. She is writing what she thinks men want in a wife. She wanted for people to read it and see how preposterous the standards set for women are.
4: She is portraying wives as totally subservient to their husbands. She organizes a wife's services in long paragraphs. I would say it was totally silly, but i know she doesn't believe this and is making a point. She wants her readers to feel that what she has described a wife as is ridiculous. She does this because she feels that wives are treated lowly like property of their husbands.
5: Dear Judy Brady,
                   I admire your passion on the subject, however I thought that the examples of what you think a man wants in a wife was too long. Halfway through I thought to myself, "Ok, I get your point that wives are expected to do w hat their husbands want." I do however think that it was a good persusive writing, and that the extensive lists add to the absurdity of the point you were trying to make.