Brady Makes Are Based on Her Personal

¶ … Brady makes are based on her personal and professional needs, a few of the arguments Brady makes in her desire to have a wife seem to be from the heart. She wants a wife who will "sympathize with my pain" -- that seems from the heart -- and she also wants a wife to help pay for her schooling so she can not only become independent but also "support those dependent upon me." This shows she isn't just thinking about herself in a selfish sense.

The desire Brady has to help her children in several ways shows her character and her values; she wants them to eat properly, she wants them to have "an adequate social life with their peers," she feels it is important that her children go to the zoo, to the park, and because she will be going to school she won't have time to do the things for her children that she knows need to be done for them. Brady's values include keeping a house clean and keeping her children well fed and entertained. Education is important to her, and she mentions the importance of education in a number of instances.

The factual parts of Brady's essay include: she needs a wife to keep track of doctor's appointments and to be willing to give up certain hours at work because there will be times when the children's needs are greater than her wife's needs. She needs a wife to pay for the childcare that is involved when the children are out of school but her wife is at work. She needs a wife to plan the menus and do the grocery shopping; she needs to have meals cooked and to have her children served the meal "pleasantly"; someone has to clean up after the meal is served and of course Brady can't do that because she needs that time to do her studying.

Brady's argument is the most effective when she talks about her children's needs. She seems less effective when she talks about her own needs. For example, a "wife who will pick up after me" seem kind of selfish. Any grown person, working or not, going to school or not, with several children or no children, should be able to pick up after herself. And moreover, when Brady says she needs a wife to be able to "see to it that my personal things are kept in their proper place" so she can find it when it is needed -- that is less effective because it sounds like she is whining and can't even keep her own personal belongings organized.

Question TWO:

Brady uses figurative language when she says she wants a wife "who is a good nurturant attendant to my children." By using the word "nurturant" Brady is suggesting that she wants a wife who will allow her children to explore and investigate, but that wife will also protect the children. She also wants sympathy when she's not feeling well (or having pain for any reason) -- "…when I am sick and sympathize with my pain and loss of time from school." This is beginning to sound petty, because in this last sentence she is sounding like a baby herself.