Question

Read the passage from "Marriage Is a Private Affair" by

Answer 1

Answer:

O How fathers and sons interact in this culture during this  period .

Explanation:

An analytical approach to any writing based on the feminist and historical perspective will mainly focus on how the different gender issues are taken into account and treated at that particular time in history. This allows the presentation of how men and women were treated and how these differences functions in society.

In Chinua Achebe's Marriage Is A Private Affair, the main issue is that of a man marrying the choice of his father according to what is believed and followed by their village's customs and traditions. Nnaemeka is expected to marry his neighbor's daughter who is selected by his father as a 'good woman' and 'wife-material', a good Christian who's had "proper Christian upbringing". And in the letter sent by the father, it is evident that issues such as marriage were discussed more like a business transaction rather than a matter of love. The given excerpt shows how fathers and sons interact with each other in their culture, during that period.