What Is The Price That Okonkwo Pays For Being Too Manly

"The story of Okonkwo is in a way the story of our culture; he pays a price because he places too much emphasis on strength and manliness." Discuss this quote as it applies to both the novel and our own modern American culture.
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Thing Fall Apart
“Courage Tradiotion Manliness”
What is the price that Okonkwo pays for being too manly?
-He loses his son
-He loses his tribes culture
-His life (Okonwo dilberatley kills himself bc he would rather die by his own hands than the white mans)

 Okonwo makes rash descisions bc he has problems dealing with his emotions .He has problems dealing with his emotions bc of his fear of being like his father. He does nto want to be like his father bc the father was unsuccessful and lazy “father’s weakness and failure “
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Machi can’t even abide by the idea that in some cultures, women own their children. He compares that aberration of appropriate social structure to the impossibility of women being on top during sex – which you only have to check out Cosmopolitan once to know that isn’t really an impossibility. Anyway, the men seem to feel that their own masculinity is threatened by other tribes flouting different customs. Okonkwo and many of the other Umuofia men, then seem to derive their feelings of masculine self-worth from outside sources – like cultural practices – rather than from an internal feeling of positive