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Many. For one, women are a means to the end, the ends being:

  • Tribal respect
  • children, particularly boys
  • labour, including farming and child rearing

Okonkwo appears to love Ekwefi. He desires relations with his wives.

He also wishes to have his daughters take honourable and respected husbands, thus increasing the family's respect within the tribe.

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