Throughout the essay, Syfers uses pathos to appeal to the audience’s emotions by repeating, “I want a wife to/who…” (Syfers) followed by a “wife’s duty”. She does this to rile up the audience’s emotions. She wants women to feel like they have been treated unfairly and to make them take a stand to be treated the same way men are treated, and she wants men to feel sympathy for women and realize they have been treating women unequally. Syfers strongest hit to the audience’s emotion is last question, “My God, who wouldn’t want a wife?”(p. 263) It makes people realize that the reasons why...