Things Fall Apart 7

After the stock market crash of 1929, hundreds of people ended their lives because they just couldn’t cope with the fact that they had lost such a great deal of money. Some had lost their life savings - but most hadn’t. In fact, most of them still had enough to live better than a lot of lower-class families. But why had they committed suicide? Many prisoners who have been institutionalized for thirty or forty …

…and he mourn[s] for the warlike men of Umuofia, who [have] so unaccountably [have] become soft like women.”(183) Change, and the frustration brought by change killed Okonkwo. Mabe things would have been completely different if only a war had been declared. In my opinion, the absence of war to prevent this shifting of lifestyles was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Or you could say the rope that broke Okonkwo’s neck.