quot; Because he was not a man of thought, his actions were always the same.
             At one point, a clan member "... contradicted him at a kindred meeting which they held to discuss the next ancestral feast. Without looking at the man Okonkwo had said: 'This meeting is for men.' The man who had contradicted him had no titles. That was why he had called him a woman. Okonkwo knew how to kill a man's spirit. Everybody at the kindred meeting took sides with Osugo when Okonkwo called him a woman." This happened early in the book, setting up the pattern for the clan's reaction to Okonkwo when moves away from his societies ideal of a good man. Here, Okonkwo's offense is minor – he is ungracious when contradicted in public by a 'lesser&
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