Okeke believes in the traditional customs surrounding marriage and wishes to arrange his son's marriage to a girl whom he finds suitable. He tells Nnaemeka a wife should have "good character and a Christian background." These seem to be code words for a wife who is from Okeke's village and is from his ethnic group. When Nnaemeka tells his father that he is marrying a girl from Lagos with some of those same characteristics, Okeke objects. He is against his son's marriage for three reasons. First, Okeke believes that he should be responsible for arranging his son's marriage to a girl he approves of. Second, the girl is not from Okeke's and Nnemeka's Ibo tribe. Third, although Nnaemeka's fiancé Nene is a Christian, she is also a teacher, and Okeke believes that women should not be teachers. Despite the fact that Nene seems to be of good character and a Christian, Okeke will not acknowledge her and basically shuns his son for eight years because of his choice of a wife.
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