Things Fall Apart

Describe the attitudes of each of the main characters in "Things Fall Apart".

"Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe

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Okonkwo is character around which the story “Things Fall Apart” centers. Okonkwo desires to be a respected member of his Nigerian clan, a successful yam farmer, and fearless warrior. In short, he wants to be everything that his father was not. He detests the characteristics of idleness and laziness that defined his father and is disappointed when his eldest son seems to take after the man.

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