Things Fall Apart Figurative Language Chapters 19-22

Okonkwo describes Enzinma and Ekwefi as dual rainbows in the quote: "The rainbow began to appear, and sometimes two rainbows, like a mother and her daughter, the young and beautiful, and the other an old and faint shadow" (Achebe 163). By using this figurative language, Okonkwo is suggesting that Ekwefi's beauty was once strong and vivid, and is now fading. He believes, Enzinma, however, to be a in her prime, beautiful, and strong like a brand new rainbow  who has yet to lose her color. Okonkwo is a shallow man, caring only about a woman's beauty, and not her personality. He makes it clear that he hardly thinks of women as human. In his mind, women are no more than sexually-available children, as they are incapable of doing simple tasks that only men can do.


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