What do pieces such as Marriage Is a Private Affair and Nectar in a Sieve demonstrate about the influence of modern ideas and modern ways on...

Among
the topics that both works address are arranged marriages, women working outside the home, and
the impact of urbanization and industrialization. In some ways, in both works it is
modernization that takes a son from his parents.

In , Nnaemeka and his
father disagree vehemently about the sons marriage plans. In part because the son has moved from
the village where he grew up to the city of Lagos, he has been exposed to many new ideas. There
he met Nene, who works as a teacher. His father disapproves of his son choosing his own bride,
as he believes in that arranged marriage is the only correct kind and has already selected a
bride for him; he also...