Okonkwo Gender

In things fall apart gender is dwelled mostly on the main character okonkwo who believes what a man should be and those who don’t fit his own description of a man is worthless in a sense. Also his description of how a man should be causes him to hate his father a resent his own son. Okonkwos mind set of gender leads him into doing many different things, some leading him into fame and others leading him into misfortune.

What is being a man? To okonkwo being a man is being a man that is strong and prideful and working hard. To be a man was to gain respect and power. He did everything to be an ideal man in his own eyes a type of man that he didn’t see at home from his father, which meant he would reject anything that his father did would do.
Okonkwo was rewarded in his life for the way he lived and raised himself to be.

Even with all the success he got from living to his own expectations, there were downfalls at the same time; he became very impatient and violent. He developed a quick temper that would lead him to make dumb choices. His ideal of being a man lead him to resent anyone who didn’t fit is profile for a male. That led him to his feelings toward his father as well as his son, and having a negative effect on peace week.

The way okonkwo treats his family is in specifics his father and son nwoye. Okonkwo despises his father because he felt his father was not filling the criteria of a man. He hated his father’s nature, and how he looked at life. Okonkwos father unoka was lazy, poor profligate, cowardly, gentle, and interested in music and conversation all the tings okonkwo had no interest for. Okonkwo is mad at his father for never doing anything important with his life and being somewhat of a nuisance to the
Being a son of a proud man that has his ideal of how his son should be, but okonkwo sees his father in his son than seeing himself in his son. Like okonkwo’s father nwoye is lazy and doesn’t do many things or is productive in the village, which makes okonkwo disappointed in his son that he’s taking the same route as his grandfather. This leads to their relationship being very Oriol 3

Turbulent and nwoye being mistreated by his father all because nwoye doesn’t fit the gender role of a man. Okonkwo suffer for the way he acts and the way he believes is the right way for a man to act. He goes through trial that will affect him deeply mainly because of the stubbornness of not only his personality but his role as a