Many people tend to treat their children equally to keep the tension low. Spreading equality within children is very important, especially your own. On the other hand, Okonkwo didn't seem to really spread equality. He treated his son Nwoye and his daughter Ezinma fairly different. Okonkwo seemed to fill Nwoye with fear of his own father, which made the relationship distant between them. Reasons for that was mainly because “Nwoye was already causing his father great anxiety for his incipient laziness”. With Ezinma, Okonkwo expressed different types of feelings, such as caring and having great concern for her. Mainly his care for her was due to where Ezinma had the “right spirit and alone understood Okonkwo’s every mood”. Due to how he treats
