Things Fall ApartOkonkwo's relationship with his Igbo society in Achebe's Things Fall Apart was that of a pure being. Okonkwo showed the finest examples of human qualities of what it took to be an Igbo man. Okonkwo strives to be strong, masculine, hardworking, respected and wealthy. It was Okonkwo's inner struggle to be as different as possible from his father, whom he believed to be weak, effeminate, lazy, shameful, ashamed and poor. Okonkwo achieves great social and financial success by adopting these ideals. He married three wives and was the father of several children. He has a farm with a barn full of yams, his obi and a cabin for each woman. He was also a well-respected clan member. Nevertheless, Okonkwo found that he was unable to adapt to the changing times as the white man came to live among his people. It was this reluctance, this stubbornness to change from his Umuofia upbringing and his ambitious and fiery attitude that ultimately led to Okonkwo's undoing. From the first chapter, we read that "Okonkwo was well known in the nine villages and even beyond. His fame was based on strong personal achievements. As a young man of eighteen, he had brought honor to his village by launching Amalinze the Cat Amalinze was the great wrestler who was undefeated for seven years, from Umuofia to Mbaino ruled his house with a heavy hand, with a good heart, but always with the fear of failure and loss. weakness, like that of his father Okonkwo tried so hard to be different from his father, Unoka, that he ultimately did not realize that his own son, Nwoye, also wanted to be different from his father. , Okonkwo In chapter three, Okonkwo is seen as an industrious farmer who impresses his father with his hard work to gain their trust. A farmer and friend gave Okonkwo a total of 1,200 yam seeds. plant, but due to a devastating drought and terrible rains, only a third of his harvest manages to produce. His father tried to console him but Okonkwo said: "Since I survived that year, he always said, 'I will survive anything.' He put it down to his inflexible will. » This shows Okonkwo's character: he has always been a man of hard work, a man of action within his village of Iguedo..