The novel Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe explores many aspects set in Nigeria during the early 1900’s. The internet research provides the many ways these aspects have changed and or stayed the same today. Specifically the gender roles that has been set by society for decades. Gender roles has always been important in the Igbo culture because they had obligations and expectations that only men could require and different responsibilities for women. In Things Fall Apart and internet research it reveals similarities and differences in the roles of men and women as wives, in work fields, and femininity shown by men among the Igbo people from the early 1900’s to today. During the early 1900’s, wives did not play a huge role in her life.
