Things Fall Apart

Okonkwo is a "tall and huge" and proud Igbo (Achebe 3). His overriding emotion in Things Fall Apart is anger, anger at the changes Christian missionaries have wrought on his people and culture and at his own people for succumbing to these changes.

During his exile and afterward, Okonkwo is angry because he believes that the values being imposed on the Igbo by the British are robbing his people of their heritage, culture, and identity. Okonkwo's

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