Summary of ‘I Want a Wife’
Summary of ‘I Want a Wife’ This essay “I Want a Wife” comments satirically on the demands placed on wives and mothers. The narrator is wife, and a mother. One of her male friends recently got divorce and was looking for another wife. Then it came to her mind that she also anted to have a wife. But why did she ant to have a wife? <script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8114033470618231" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> She wants a wife to be economically free later, and she ants to go back to school. The wife will work and send her to school. The wife will also take care of the children. She will do everything necessary for the children. Sometimes she may have to take leave from her job to manage the children. A wife is necessary to satisfy physical needs, to look after the clothes, and the kitchen. She is also needed to nurse the sick, and to express sympathy in a painful condition.