If you grew up in a patriarchal family—if your husband all your life believed that “a wife should”—and then, in a new world even more patriarchal than your own, will you change?
Is there any point in it?
What, in general, can change a woman who is gentle and timid by nature, who has gotten used to obeying the head of the family?
It would seem—just obey your husband, and everything will be fine! And if things go badly, then it must be your own fault!