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Okonkwo expects different things from men and women. He expects for men to become highly respected, rich, and obeyed. However, he views a woman's best potential to be an obedient mother. Achebe shows us Okonkwo's beliefs through what he says and in the long-term way that he raises his children. The variances in his way of raising his children according to their sex show his stereotypical ideas. He says that, "She [Ezinma] should have been a boy.&
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