In Judy Syfers’ piece of work, Syfers takes a very humorous approach in describing all the roles and responsibilities that come along with being a wife. Judy Syfers describes all the reasons why she would want a wife and the desires she hopes for the wife to fulfill. Although the list seems quite unrealistic and lengthy, wives generally tend to do all of the roles Syfers wishes for.

Judy Syfers’ work can seen as very sarcastic and humorous as she is just labeling all wives as the same kind of person with the same life. She is plainly describing how a “conventional marriage” is supposed to function. But really, there is no real answer to what a “conventional marriage” should be defined as.

It is actually very interesting to see how all of the reasons in which makers Judy Syfers wish for a wife, in reality are just the daily jobs a wife accomplishes. Judy Syfers uses a whole four paragraphs of her piece of work to just list out the to-do’s for her “wife”. Syfers is showing how this enormous to-do list can actually be taken for granted when someone is labeled as “wife”.