WRITING TASK.
READING COMPREHENSION WITH A FOCUS ON WRITING.
I want a wife Judy Brady.
1. Judy Brady defines the traditional woman as a woman who remains
obedient to her husband’s necessities all the time. Obviously, a wife
doesn’t have to perform all of the duties the writer exposed in the text.
The writer exaggerates the role of the traditional wife, who builds her life
around her husband’s needs until the point that she loses her identity as
individual.
2. She observes how a male friend of her is looking for a new wife after a
divorce. She thinks about how could be her life if she had a wife who
takes care about all her world like most of men wants.
3. The writer criticise the way how is women treated in traditional society.
She uses a simple language to talk about something related to the
familiar circle and to write a text easy to understand for everyone.
- The expression “of course” is used to take for granted that the
man, after his divorce, has “the right” to be single and free again
whereas her wife still looking after his children.
- The expression “needless to say” makes reference to the belief
that the support and care of the children is a women’s business.
- The expression “naturally” remarks the necessity of the man to
start a new life with other woman without the responsibilities from
his previous marriage.
4. Brady describes a woman who works as housekeeper for her husband
and who has to give up her personal goals. In contrast, Susan Faludi in
her article talks about the problems- psychological problems most of
them- that women have to solve when they renounce to have children
and a family at all, to reach high positions in her working life.
