Things Fall Apart Okonkwo's relationship with his Igbo society in Achebe's Things Fall Apart was one of pure being. Okonkwo showed the best examples of human qualities of what it took to be an Igbo man. Okonkwo strives to be strong, masculine, industrious, respected, and wealthy. This was Okonkwo's internal struggle to be as different as possible from his father, who he believed had been weak, effeminate, lazy, shameful, shameful, and poor. Okonkwo achieves great social and financial success by embracing these ideals. He marries three wives and is the father of several children. He has a farm with a barn full of sweet potatoes, his own obi, and a hut for each wife. He was also a highly respected clan member. However, Okonkwo found that he was unable to adapt to the changing times when the white man came to live among his people. It was this reluctance, stubbornness, to change from his Umuofia upbringing and his ambitious and fiery behavior that ultimately led to Okonkwo's downfall. From the first chapter we read that "Okonkwo was well known in all the nine villages and beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements. As a young man of eighteen he had brought honor to his village by throwing Amalinze the Cat Amalinze was the great wrestler who for seven years he remained undefeated, from Umuofia to Mbaino Okonkwo ruled his family with a heavy hand, good heart, but always with fear of failure and weakness, like that of his father Okonkwo tried so hard to be different from his father , Unoka, who ultimately failed to notice that his son, Nwoye, also wants to be different from his father, Okonkwo chapter three Okonkwo is seen as an industrious farmer who impresses his clan members with his hard work that conquers. their trust. A farmer and a friend gave Okonkwo a total of 1200 seed potatoes to plant, but due to a devastating drought and terrible downpours he only manages to get a third of his harvest. His father tried to console him but Okonkwo said, "'Because I survived that year,' he always said 'I will survive anything.' He attributed it to his unyielding will." This was indicative of Okonkwo's character who was always a man of hard work, a man of action in his village of Iguedo.