Character Web

Relationship to Okonkwo:

Okonkwo is disappointed in Nwoye because his laziness reminds him of Unoka, his father. Okonkwo beats and nags his son hoping to mold Nwoye into who he wants him to be. He hopes for him to become a masculine man who is, able to control his woman-folk, (Achebe, 53)



 Nwoye knew that it was right to be masculine and to be violent, but somehow he still preferred the stories that his mother used to tell, (Achebe, 53)

Relationship to Okonkwo:

His second wife, mother to his daughter Ezinma.

Description: 45 years old, loves wrestling matches

Nwoye

Ekwefi

Okonkwo's second wife had merely cut a few leaves off it to wrap some food, and she said so. Without further argument Okonkwo gave her a sound beating and left her and her only daughter weeping (Achebe, 38)

Relationship to Okonkwo:

daughter of Okonkwo's first wife

The fact was that Obiageli had been making inyanga with her pot. She had balanced it on her head, folded her arms in front of her and began to sway her waist like a grown-up young lady. When the pot fell down and broke she burst out laughing. She only began to weep when they got near the iroko tree outside their compound. (Achebe, 44)

Obiageli

Unoka

Okonkwo



“Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness.” (Achebe, 13)

Relationship to Okonkwo:

Unoka is Okonkwo's father
Okonkwo’s fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself. It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father. (Achebe, 13)



Okonkwo is a very harsh, aggressive man with a deeper reasoning as to why.

When he walked, his heels hardly touched the ground and he seemed to walk on springs, as if he was going to pounce on somebody. And he did pounce on people quite often. (Achebe, 4)

Unoka, for that was his father's name, had died ten years ago. In his day he was lazy and improvident and was quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow. (Achebe, 4)

Ezinma

Relationship to Okonkwo:

Okonkwo and Ekwefi's eldest daughter at 10 years old.

 'She should have been a boy,' he thought as he looked at his ten-year-old daughter. (Achebe, 64)