The prejudice against Nnaemeka's marriage was not
Read the passage from both the feminist and historical
confined to his little village. In Lagos, especially among
perspectives. In one paragraph, explain what each
his people who worked there, it showed itself in a
perspective reveals about the passage. Compare and
different way. Their women, when they met at their
contrast the similarities and differences of both the
village meeting, were not hostile to Nene. Rather, they
perspectives.
paid her such excessive deference as to make her feel she
was not one of them. But as time went on, Nene gradually
broke through some of this prejudice and even began to
make friends among them. Slowly and grudgingly they
began to admit that she kept her home much better than
most of them.
-"Marriage Is a Private Affair,'
Chinua Achebe