While maintaining this outward appearance of masculinity, however, he also had the viewpoint of men being superior to women. When pertaining to his son Nwoye, Okonkwo wanted him to be “...able to control his women-folk. No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man He was like the man in the song who had ten and one wives and not enough soup for his foo-foo” (53). As the Ibo retain the view of female nature as weak and frail, they allowed wife beating. In one instance, Okonkwo beats his second wife when she refers to him as a “...gun that never shot. Unfortunately for her, Okonkwo heard it and ran madly into his room for the loaded gun, ran out again, and aimed at her as she clambered over the dwarf wall of the
While maintaining this outward appearance of masculinity, however, he also had the viewpoint of men being superior to women. When pertaining to his son Nwoye, Okonkwo wanted him to be “...able to control his women-folk. No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man He was like the man in the song who had ten and one wives and not enough soup for his foo-foo” (53). As the Ibo retain the view of female nature as weak and frail, they allowed wife beating. In one instance, Okonkwo beats his second wife when she refers to him as a “...gun that never shot. Unfortunately for her, Okonkwo heard it and ran madly into his room for the loaded gun, ran out again, and aimed at her as she clambered over the dwarf wall of the