Okonkwo: A Hero or a coward?

That year the harvest was sad, like a funeral, and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable and rotting yams. One man tied his cloth to a tree and hanged himself. Okonkwo remembered that tragic year with a cold shiver throughout the rest of his life. It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair. He knew that he was a fierce …

…his changing society. It was when he finally became aware that the way of life he so cherished was gone, that he gave up and took his own life. It was himself that Okonkwo believed was a worthless man due to him not being as successful as he truly desired to be in his lifetime. This in itself says that Okonkwo was the hero many would like to be, but will never take the steps.