TFA

Okonkwo's fall, while in a different context than the Western/Judeo-Christian context of our other texts, is still similar. While notions of G-d and sin are different, the elements of chi, good and evil, and fate are all present in Igbo culture. Also, in terms of the narrative, all these novels allow for storytelling and some psychological analysis that allow the reader to define a character's fall. The strange thing about Things Fall Apart is that Okonkwo does not really change. His hypermasculine anger is his tragic flaw -- it is reactionary to his idle, lazy, low-status father. And while it provides him the wealth and high status we see depicted in the first part of the novel, it is this same characteristic that results in his fall, his exile, and his suicide.