Students submit to teachers, teachers to school administrators, school administrators to the school board, the school board to the community, and so on. In my last posted comments, I pointed out to you that profit motive is a factor in this story. I think you are also noticing that love for spouse and offspring is a motivating factor. Art must imitate life, at least a little bit. Characters in novels, short stories, plays, movies, and even in jokes, do what they do for at least one good reason.
Every author has a viewpoint and, hopefully, a message.
He has to keep the message as simple as he can, even if he dresses it up with a lot of detail and suspense or whatever. That is why even though art imitates life, it never quite captures real life. But, it can and does help explain the issues of life. Whether he finds it or not, hopefully he writes and speaks about it, and thus adds to the inventory of human imagination and knowledge. Whether this makes for a good wife or not rides largely on one's perspective about marriage.